Examples of chiaroscuro in the following topics:
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- Chiaroscuro is defined as the use of strong contrasts between light and dark in an artwork.
- Chiaroscuro woodcuts began as imitations of the illuminated manuscript technique.
- Chiaroscuro is perhaps described most often in relation to painting.
- This exaggeration of the shading of chiaroscuro is known as 'tenebrism'.
- An example of a chiaroscuro painting by Caravaggio.
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- In Baroque painting, the technique of chiaroscuro was used to produce highly dramatic effects in art.
- Chiaroscuro, which means literally "light-dark" in Italian, refers to clear tonal contrasts exemplified by very high-keyed whites, placed directly against very low-keyed darks.
- Peter to create his expressive chiaroscuro scene.
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- The use of the chiaroscuro technique is a well known trait of Baroque art.
- The chiaroscuro technique is visible in the painting The Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens.
- Chiaroscuro refers to the interplay between light and dark and is a technique often used in paintings of dimly lit scenes to produce a very high-contrast, dramatic atmosphere.
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- For example, a chiaroscuro painting communicates the feeling of drama through skilled application of the artistic elements.
- Baglione's "Sacred and Profane Love" is an example of a chiaroscuro painting.
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- Many other important techniques commonly associated with Renaissance painting developed in Florence during the first half of the 15th century, including the use of realistic proportions, foreshortening (the artistic effect of shortening lines in a drawing to create the illusion of depth), sfumato (the blurring of sharp outlines by subtle and gradual blending to give the illusion of three-dimensionality), and chiaroscuro (the contrast between light and dark to convey a sense of depth).
- Unlike Giotto, Masaccio utilized linear and atmospheric perspective, and made even greater use of directional light and the chiaroscuro technique, enabling him to create even more convincingly lifelike paintings than his predecessor.
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- His figures were depicted with more lifelike proportions and shading, as evident in the Crucifixion scene for the church of Santa Croce in Florence (1287-88), which demonstrates delicately shaded draperies and the chiaroscuro technique.
- Over time, he achieved greater naturalism and softness in his work and made use of foreshortening and chiaroscuro techniques.
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- Among the more prominent characteristics of Rembrandt's work is his use of chiaroscuro, the theatrical employment of light and shadow.
- This technique was most likely derived from the Dutch Caravaggisti, followers of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio who had first used the chiaroscuro technique.
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- In form, Neoclassical architecture emphasizes the wall rather than chiaroscuro, and maintains separate identities to each of its parts.
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- Fifteenth century artists adopted and built on the style and techniques that he had introduced to Italian painting, most notably the drive towards naturalism and the use of linear perspective, sfumato, and chiaroscuro.