Question

Renaissance painters were influenced by a shading technique known as chiaroscuro, first introduced by which of the following?

A Byzantine painter
 An Islamic painter
A Greek painter
A Spanish painter

Answer 1

It was Da Vinci, a Greek painter

Answer 2

The correct answer is A Greek painter

There are evidences that Greak and Roman artists used the chiaroscuro technique. Reviving ancient Greco-Roman culture the idea of humanism was undoubtedly the engine of this movement and became the very spirit of the Renaissance. It is a deliberate return, which proposed the resurrection of the past, now considered as a source of inspiration and model of civilization.