Art style: Cinematic Neo-Noir.
A dim royal audience hall with tall columns, a single shaft of cold light falling from a high window onto Machiavelli seated in a high-backed carved chair on a raised dais. He regards a kneeling supplicant below with an impassive, withholding expression, offering no nod. Deep chiaroscuro lighting, most of the vast room lost in darkness. Atmosphere of austere judgment and rationed favor. Palette of slate grey, cold silver, and deep black shadow.
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FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image entirely in "Cinematic Neo-Noir" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Cinematic Neo-Noir". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Cinematic Neo-Noir" idiom, not in any other medium.
