chiaroscuro

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Synonyms for chiaroscuro

adj dark, covered

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Word Origin & History

1680s, "disposition of light and dark in a picture," literally "bright-dark," from Italian chiaro "clear, bright" (from Latin clarus; see clear (adj.)) + oscuro (from Latin obscurus; see obscure (adj.)). Related: Chiaroscurist.

Example Sentences for chiaroscuro

No chiaroscuro is so difficult as this; and none so noble, chaste, or impressive.

I was in train to interpret for Ma'moiselle the chiaroscuro.

In chiaroscuro, and in delicacy of execution he is not inferior to his master.

Thus they were familiar with chiaroscuro before the European painters.

The typical German chiaroscuro was therefore from two blocks.

The third is complete in chiaroscuro, as far as engraving can be.

Mezzotint is properly to be considered as chiaroscuro drawing on metal.

For it is as a symbol, not as a scenic effect, that in each case the chiaroscuro is given.

But none of this character is assisted by the colouring, or the chiaroscuro.

Photographs give Turnerian form, and Rembrandtesque chiaroscuro, iv.

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