Responsable : Professeur Marie-Madeleine Martinet

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Painters either select to emphasise cast shadows as compositional effects or to suppress them by bathing objects in sfumato (Leonardo’s recommendation)

Cast shadows	sfumato
The foreground tower casts a shadow on the palace in the middle distance The tower, shadow and palace are united into  a single compositional line The pattern of shadows interplays with that of the buildings	The tower stands out against an  atmospheric background giving a sense of depth