color, texture and light is almost the subject of this painting by makovsky, "the russian bride." and in this work, again, light glistens. you have a clearly indicated light source, a window. but there is an implied light source which is not included in the painting, but we understand it by the reflections that glitter across the entire painting. look at the little boy, for example. now, through the use of light and the use of color, we have a sense and feeling for texture. and so you can see the textural differentiation. for example, the fur, the wonderful satiny quality, the beautiful pearls that decorate the kokoshnik or the very decorative native type of costume or headgear that was worn in the 17th-century russia. now that i have discussed or presented the individual elements of style and i have tried to focus on one particular aspect of style, one particular element in each of these works, i'd like to focus on four works. i'd like to go back to and start with caravaggio. i would like to analyze caravaggio and incorporate or actually inspect and look at all of the essential a