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Look at this painting by van honthorst. Viewers are likely to look first at the faces of the people playing instruments because of the use of what technique?

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Chiaroscuro

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Chiaroscuro techniques

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Gerrit van Honthorst was a Dutch painter, known as Gherardo delle Notti because of his works in which he used candlelight in his paintings. He earned a reputation in seventeenth-century as a Dutch artist. He developed a technique called chiaroscuro, which he used extensively in his paintings. He manages to create shadows and illusion of three-dimensional.

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