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The main technique used by Leonardo was sfumato. In using sfumato da Vinci relied on shading rather than outlining in order to provide contrast and to make his art more realistic ( da Vinci also used sfumato while drawing The Mona Lisa).

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What Leonardo's first painting?

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The fact that the figures in Leonardo da Vinci's the virgin of the rocks are arranged in a figure triangle gives the painting?

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