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Analyses of Rembrandt’s seventeenth-century painting The Night Watch, citing its richly saturated colors and stark contrasts between light and shadow, often characterize the work as an exemplar of the Baroque-era style. Many art historians, however, challenge the very notion of a distinct Baroque era. They claim that the so-called Baroque aesthetic was, _______ just an extension of the stylings of the Renaissance era.