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This art shows large-scale shapes and configurations that are often drawn without any restrictions. The artists have developed modern trends for traditional themes. Michael Angelo da Caravaggio pioneered a revolutionary way of portraying real worldly figures in line with a striking contrast of light and shadow. Anibal Krashi founded the Italian Baroque taste to decorate the bishop with huge shapes in scenes that give a deceptive impression of breadth. Pietropole Robbins, the most famous baroque artist, had photographed a large number of plastic paintings and depicted mythical themes and motifs of large dynamic motifs. Rembrandt was painting works in the Netherlands that were often influenced by Caravaggio and Robbins. But Rembrandt used the

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