chiaroscuro

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Though their chiaroscuro was accurately based on that of Correggio, it lacked his aërial play of semitones.

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  1. noun The technique of using light and shade in pictorial representation.
  2. noun The arrangement of light and dark elements in a pictorial work of art.
  3. noun A woodcut technique in which several blocks are used to print different shades of a color.
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  • It may not have the depth of tone and mastery of chiaroscuro which make the Beaumont “Adoration” so subtly attractive, but in tenderness of feeling and daintiness of treatment it is not surpassed by any other of Giorgione's works. —  Giorgione
  • Nay, if gorgeousness of colour, splendour of glow, mastery of chiaroscuro, and brilliancy of technique are qualities which go to make up great painting, then the Glasgow picture must take high rank, even in a school where such qualities found their grandest expression. —  Giorgione
  • Lastman had tried to correct Rembrandt's vagaries as to chiaroscuro, but without success. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
  • Though their chiaroscuro was accurately based on that of Correggio, it lacked his aërial play of semitones. —  Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
  • But this chiaroscuro is also propitious to great illusions. —  Kasama
 

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  1. Italian : chiaro, bright, light (from Latin clārus, clear; see kelə-2 in Indo-European roots) + oscuro, dark (from Latin obscūrus; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots).
 

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/kɪɑrɑsˈkuroʊ, kɪɑroʊɑsˈkuroʊ/
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