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Caravaggio used foreshortening to bring the figure to the front of the painting and project him into.

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Caravaggio made the chiaroscuro technique of darkening the shadows and transfixing the subject in a blinding shaft of light a dominant stylistic element of painting.

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cross-hatching to model the figures with light and dark for a sense of three-dimensional form

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