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OCR: LIFE He also revolutionized painting style. Instead of a white background, he used a dark one to allow the overlying color a more three- dimensional existence. He developed the use of "aerial perspective," whereby the misty atmosphere changes the colors of the landscape as it dissolves into the distance, and also "sfumato," the blurring of outlines through the use of subtle gradations of tone - both give his pictures their characteristic air of mysteriousness. His principle of grouping figures within an imaginary pyramid, linked by their gestures and facial expressions, became a High Renaissance compositional rule. His two versions of the Madonna and child with St. Anne, "Madonna Leonardo of the Rocks" (Louvre, Paris, and

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