chiaroscuro

• Roberta Lapucci said the Italian artist [Caravaggio] - noted for his chiaroscuro (light and shadow) paintings - used "techniques that are the basis of photography". —  The Moderate Voice
• His power of composition, of breadth of handling, chiaroscuro, and suggestion of colour and form, was perfect within the range of his medium; and in that medium he gave us, not paper with pen-lines on it, but a perfect sense of light, form, and expression. —  The History of "Punch"
• Only, observe, the chiaroscuro is simply the technical result of the two others: a Greek painter likes light and shade, first, because they enable him to realize form solidly, while color is flat; and secondly, because light and shade are melancholy, while color is gay So that the defect of color, and substitution of more or less gray or gloomy effects of rounded gradation, constantly express the two characters: first, Academic or Greek fleshliness and solidity as opposed to Gothic imagination; and secondly, of Greek tragic horror and gloom as opposed to Gothic gladness 43. —  Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871
• You may, of course, find the two purposes mingled: but pure formal chiaroscuro--Marc Antonio's and Leonardo's--is inconsistent with color, and though it is thoroughly necessary as an exercise, it is only as a correcting and guarding one, never as a basis of art 52. —  Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871
• In formal chiaroscuro, all these are to be considered as white, and drawn as if they were carved in marble. —  Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871

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