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The distinction between the colorist and chiaroscurist school is trenchant and absolute: and may soon be shown you so that you will never forget it.

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John

Next, this anonymous painter must have been a singularly refined and poetical artist, a master of brilliant colour, and an accomplished chiaroscurist.

From Giorgione by Cook, Herbert

This at once marks the picture as belonging to the lower or chiaroscurist school, even if you had not before recognized it as such by its pretty rendering of sunset effect.

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John

Only one moderately important chiaroscurist can be mentioned, John Skippe, who worked in England from the 1770’s to about 1810.

From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob

You know I sometimes speak of these generally as the Gothic and Greek schools, sometimes as the colorist and chiaroscurist.

From Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 by Ruskin, John