IN painting, "chiaroscuro" means the effect created when light and shadow are contrasted. This leads to light falling unevenly, or from a particular direction on something.

In the life of the controversial Filipino painter Juan Luna, the shadows overtook the light. He was a great 19th-century painter, but will also go down in history as the jealous husband who shot and killed his wife and mother-in-law.

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