chiaroscuro
noun
the distribution of light and shade in a picture.
chiaroscurist
-
a word derived from
chiaroscuro.
Example Sentences
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I have always spoken of the Greek, or essentially sculpture-loving schools, as chiaroscurist; always of the Gothic, or colour-loving schools, as non-chiaroscurist.
From Val d'Arno by John Ruskin
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 John Ruskin
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 Herbert Cook
For instance, a chiaroscurist of Lionardo's school, drawing a leopard, would take no notice whatever of the spots, but only give the shadows which expressed the anatomy.
From Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 by John Ruskin
He was a colorist and a chiaroscurist; and he had a great deal more interest in light and in landscape than most of the painters of his time.
From Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects by Kenyon Cox
