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Joachim and the Shepherds

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Description: Shadows and Enlightenment
For representing ‘relief’, two main rationales of tonal modelling have commonly been used in European art since the Renaissance, often in combination. One rationale is the tonal representation of the fall of localised light, as in Piazzetta’s instructional engraving (fig. 6), with its imitation of self-shadow, projected shadow and slant/tilt shading. The other is given such names as ‘modelling tone’ (for example, Rawson, 1984, pp. 105–19) and is basically a matter of a tonal range from light to …
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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00111.009

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