Giorgione

Word Gallery: Chiaroscuro

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Chiaroscuro

Giorgio da Castelfranco, called Giorgione. Youth with an Arrow, ca. 1508–1510. Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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