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Definition of Chiaroscuro
1. Noun. A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color.
Definition of Chiaroscuro
1. n. The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.
Definition of Chiaroscuro
1. Noun. (arts) An artistic technique developed during the Renaissance, referring to the use of exaggerated light contrasts in order to create the illusion of volume. ¹
2. Noun. (arts) A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color. ¹
3. Noun. (arts) The use of blocks of wood of different colors in a woodcut. ¹
4. Noun. (photography) A photographic technique in which one side of a face (for example) is well lit and the other is in shadow. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chiaroscuro
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiaroscuro
Literary usage of Chiaroscuro
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Painting by James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848)
"I shall (God willing) in my next Lecture, lay before you such observations on
chiaroscuro, as appear to be of the most essential importance. ..."
2. The Art Teaching of John Ruskin by William Gershom Collingwood (1891)
"The aim of the student in figure-drawing is to learn the outline and modelling,
not chiaroscuro ; therefore the Point is the proper instrument. ..."
3. English Coloured Books by Martin Hardie (1906)
"The last to make a definite practice of chiaroscuro work was an amateur named
John Skippe. He was a Gentleman-Commoner of Merton College, Oxford, ..."
4. Elements of Art Criticism: Comprising a Treatise on the Principles of Man's by George Whitefield Samson (1876)
"AERIAL PERSPECTIVE, AND ITS RELATION TO chiaroscuro. The expression aerial
perspective is sometimes used in works upon art as distinguished from linear ..."
5. Colour Printing and Colour Printers by R. M. Burch, William Gamble (1910)
"THE LATER WORKERS IN chiaroscuro. ITH the coining of the eighteenth century, the
art of colour printing at last threw off the shackles which had for so long ..."
6. Handbook of Painting: German, Fleming, and Dutch Schools by Sir Joseph Archer Crowe, Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Franz Kugler (1898)
"... of colouring and in the clearness of chiaroscuro. He selected for his favourite
subject the representation of most unrestrained and vulgar merriment. ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He is celebrated for the soft, gentle, and tender expression of his faces, the
transparency of his colour, the excellent management of chiaroscuro, ..."
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