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(one book passage)

The “dominion of Light” or “dominion of  shade”, or “Brightness” and “Shadiness”, implicate a clarification or, 

on the contrary, a dark accent that creates an atmosphere definable as “umbratile/shadowy” and in extreme cases “crepuscular.”

The use of more or less contrast of light and shadow is 

A “sensational and emotional means” used to add an interpretation of the context in which the scene appears. The artist can apply rational or irrational principles, conscious or unconscious options. Chiaroscuro can emphasize the volume of the figures in the painting. Chiaroscuro gives dramatic environmental resolutions 

and finally underlines relations between the figures 

in the representation.