Mask of Vaikuntha Vishnu, late 5th century. Learn more about 5th century masks
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A painting technique in which paint is thickly applied to the canvas to produce heavy contrast or intense illumination. It became prominent in the seventeenth century with Baroque painters such as Rembrandt and Diego Velazquez and gained more popularity throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the works of artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Jackson Pollock.