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The word Chiaroscuro itself is Italian, and roughly means, “light and dark.” It was first used to describe a type of drawing on medium-dark paper where the artist created both darker areas with ink and lighter areas with white paint.
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But we still manage to confuse them, and which artists made use of which styles. ... This is chiaroscuro, literally "light-dark", a technique which was used ...
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Examples of the use of chiaroscuro ... chiaroscuro - A word borrowed from Italian ("light and shade" or "dark") referring to the modeling of volume by depicting light and shade by contrasting them boldly. ... an artist who uses chiaroscuro.
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Some evidence exists that ancient Greek and Roman artists used chiaroscuro effects, but in European painting the technique was first brought to its full potential by Leonardo da Vinci in the late 15th century in such paintings as his Adoration of the Magi (1481). Thereafter, ... Georges de La Tour (French artist)
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See how this artist used chiaroscuro in an oil painting. ... Dutch artist Nikolaus Knüpfer used chiaroscuro to great effect in this monumental drawing of Pilate washing his hands after the crowd's decision to crucify Christ. White highlights on Christ's chest draw attention to him and his vulnerability.
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Chiaroscuro is an Italian word that translates as clear-dark. With this technique, the artist relies on the depiction of light and shadow to indicate the form of the subject—forms could include such things as facial features, the human figure, or still-life objects.
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Canadian Forums » Themes » Science & Environment » How Baroque artist used photography 200 years before invention of the camer ... Judith and Holofernes, 1598-9: Caravaggio was famous for his realistic style and 'chiaroscuro' style of light and shade; Roberta Lapucci, conservation chief at Florence's prestigious Studio...
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Mrs. Lapucci, who teaches at an arts institute in Florence, the Studio Art Centers International, based her hypothesis on research by British artist David Hockney, who wrote in his 2001 book "Secret Knowledge" that many old masters used optical instruments to compose their paintings.
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Renaissance artist Caravaggio used an early form of photography to project images of his subjects onto a canvas using a noxious concoction of crushed fireflies and white lead.
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