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Renaissance and Baroque Innovation
The Renaissance marked a critical shift toward humanism and technical mastery. Artists like Leonardo da Vinci explored sfumato, the deliberate blurring of lines and tones, often attributed to the atmospheric conditions prevalent in the Arno Valley that year [Da Vinci Codex MS. A, fol. 112r].
The subsequent Baroque era favored dramatic intensity and emotional appeal. Painters frequently utilized principles of [optics](/en…