Top-left lighting

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Top-left lighting is an artistic convention in which illustrations are produced so that the light appears to come from the top left of the picture.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Top-left lighting”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Caravaggio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.