This is the way in which the light and shadow are arranged, or what a critic would call the chiaroscuro of the picture. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation] Reference
He used the "chiaroscuro" artistic style to create black-and-white contrasting images. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Caravaggio was known for his "chiaroscuro" painting technique. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Points to Saul for using the word "chiaroscuro" in a tech post: "Some elements are illuminated with very bright lights. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Digest: Obama's Surveillance Stand Shakes the Netroots] Reference
My fingertips drew small circles across chiaroscuro ribs. From Wordnik.com. [The Mosaic Thief] Reference
The poorest workman may suffice for an excellent chiaroscuro. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
The typical German chiaroscuro was therefore from two blocks. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
Parmigianino drew on woodblocks to be cut in chiaroscuro by Ugo da. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
Antonio Maria Zanetti in Venice made his first chiaroscuro woodcut. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
The excellent collections of chiaroscuro prints in the Museums of the. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
Stimulated, no doubt, by the combination of chiaroscuro and antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
But none of this character is assisted by the colouring, or the chiaroscuro. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Pausias, and throwing his shade on the crowd -- showing a forcible chiaroscuro. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
"What a knowledge of chiaroscuro!" he murmured, biting his last crust in delight. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Nevertheless is open-minded, if slightly superior, about the chiaroscuro woodcut. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
The painting features the dramatic chiaroscuro typical of Caravaggio and his school. From Wordnik.com. ['Martyrdom Of St. Lawrence,' Disputed Caravaggio Painting, Unveiled] Reference
The use of cylinder presses for chiaroscuro printing was already well known to experts. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
It is a diseased eye that in the desire for violent color loses all memory of chiaroscuro. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
"We owe him chiaroscuro, with all its magic -- we owe him caricature, with all its incongruities.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
He worked less with chiaroscuro than colour, which he endowed with all the sentiment of his subject. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
Italian term “chiaroscuro,” meaning light and dark, has persisted as a generic name for this class of work. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
He talks at length with his new-found knowledge about chiaroscuro and vanishing points, surrealism and triptychs. From Wordnik.com. [Five Uneasy Pieces] Reference
And it is a complete bass range instrument and it is somehow the chiaroscuro part, the dark part of the lute family. From Wordnik.com. [Rolf Lislevand, Improvising with 'Nuove Musiche'] Reference
With their waif-white skin against chiaroscuro shadows, the children look Victorian-but their eyes say something else. From Wordnik.com. [All In The Family] Reference
The drawings were reproduced in chiaroscuro while the paintings were rendered in black-and-white by a corps of engravers. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
His novel chiaroscuro experiments had consumed valuable time and had lost him his standing as a steady worker for printers. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
All through the work of the men who used this light and shade (or chiaroscuro, as it was called) the outline basis remained. From Wordnik.com. [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference
The chiaroscuro woodcut was originally designed to serve a special purpose, to reproduce drawings of the Renaissance period. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
There is a chiaroscuro of consciousness, a light and shade of immediate goodness and badness over all our variegated moments. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Sarto, and two by his friend Franciabigio, in chiaroscuro, during 1517 to 1526, illustrative of the life of John the Baptist. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
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