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But whereas Leonardo tried to soften the transitions, Caravaggio's contrasts of colour and light are aggressively hard-edged, almost heraldic in their geometrical clarity and frontality, and played out over dark, skyless backgrounds.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2010

While we cooled our heels, I could only imagine Tim's predicament: a middle-aged West Point alum and discredited Harvard instructor serving a sentence in this skyless scene.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his Brown Swiss, a skyless 1957 landscape titled for the breed of cows crossing it, Wyeth blithely eliminated the cows.

From Time Magazine Archive

The triple canopy of jungle foliage shadows the ground in a perpetual, skyless twilight.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a skyless world, in which his eye, through dim gulfs of shadowy air, saw only ever-mounting slopes, great walls of stone behind great walls, and frowning precipices wreathed with mist.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien