chiaroscuro

How To Use chiaroscuro In A Sentence

• Its dazzling chiaroscuro and painterly bravura surpass his earlier performances.
• Lot and His Daughters betrays the influence of Caravaggio in the heavy chiaroscuro light effects and the deftly modelled figures.
• He creates rocky landscape backgrounds with misty atmospheric perspective, using sfumato and chiaroscuro to describe colour transitions.
• The brusque application of plaster disrupts the logic of the painting's chiaroscuro.
• In a word, they discovered the laws of chiaroscuro, and with them the art of foreshortening, which is, in fact, perspective applied to the human figure. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
• Despereaux's anti-hero-hero friend the rat, who is "Chiaroscuro" in the book and "Roscuro" as in a 4 year-old canpronounce that, but not the other, I guess in the film, and the rather hideously-drawn serving girl Miggery Sow are less-than-perfect and uncute characters who are in the end, redeemed in a satisfying, and not totally-unrealistic fashion. Let 2009 Not Be Despereaux
• Caravaggio pioneered the Baroque painting technique known as chiaroscuro, in which light and shadow are sharply contrasted and the discovery of his remains comes just days after a six month exhibition marking his death ended in Rome. Home | Mail Online
• Neuwirth is drawn to people who at best can be described as chiaroscuro. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• Caravaggio pioneered the Baroque painting technique of contrasting light and dark known as chiaroscuro but was famous for his wild lifestyle - he is said to have killed a man in a brawl and fled Rome. Ireland.com Breaking News
• He uses chiaroscuro to singular effect, notably in his haunted nightscapes and cloudscapes.