chiaroscurist
- a word derived from chiaroscuro.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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 Ruskin, John
A chiaroscurist," she told her little boy when she returned to the bedroom, "is a painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than colour.
From Rembrandt by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
