A while back my roommates and I were talking about art. I was trying to remember the name of the great master of a technique called chiaroscuro, a method of using contrast between light and dark (especially when related to a primarily dark painting with a single source of light) to create three-dimensionality and drama. The master, whose name I've just come across in a magazine article was Caravaggio. I have stolen some fine examples of his work from this web site: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/, and posted them for your viewing pleasure. Perhaps I'll research/write more about him in the future; he was one of my favourites in the Art History course I took at U of W.
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