It was the Eastern ideal, and its positive expression is conveyed by means of colour, deep, restful, satisfying, fused and controlled by chiaroscuro rather than by form.
The erect form of the Madonna is relieved in striking chiaroscuro against the mantle, upheld by putti.
This is the way in which the light and shadow are arranged, or what a critic would call the chiaroscuro of the picture.
Some one has defined chiaroscuro as the "art of rendering the atmosphere visible and of painting an object enveloped in air.
As a celebrated writer has expressed it, Saskia was "a ray of sunshine in the perpetual chiaroscuro of his life.
His marvelous effects of chiaroscuro leave in darkness portions of the composition, which appear in the photograph as unintelligible blurs.
A mere name, in any case, is quite as likely to obscure as to illumine the reality; the chiaroscuro effect must ever belong to it.
Great simplicity of Chiaroscuro is requisite in this style of colouring.
This as regards Chiaroscurohas been shown to depend upon Breadth.
The contrasts of colour and Chiaroscuro are vivid, and require care in the shapes, as well as the situations of the masses and points of relief.
The Chiaroscuro is broader and more tranquil than in the works of the Venetian school.
And the principles which regulate Chiaroscuro and general arrangement for this purpose, have been pointed out.
Rubens is the founder of another school in which the most violent contrasts of colour and Chiaroscuro are admitted in the focus of the picture.
Chiaroscuro and colour were the elements, in fact, in which Rembrandt reveled.
He worked less with chiaroscuro than colour, which he endowed with all the sentiment of his subject.
He builds up to the statement that Raphael and Parmigianino drew on woodblocks to be cut in chiaroscuro by Ugo da Carpi.
The drawings were reproduced in chiaroscuro while the paintings were rendered in black-and-white by a corps of engravers.
He says of Jackson that his activity in chiaroscuro was “extraordinarily rich,” that he created broad approximations of his subjects which made him neglect details, but that these were “convincingly translated into the language of the woodcut.
Nevertheless is open-minded, if slightly superior, about thechiaroscuro woodcut.
The excellent collections of chiaroscuro prints in the Museums of the Smithsonian Institution have formed a valuable basis for this monograph.
He broadened the scope of the chiaroscuro print and launched the color woodcut as a distinct art form that rivaled the polychrome effects of painting while retaining a character of its own.
Linton, for example, is almost contemptuous in his references to thechiaroscuro woodcut:[9] .
Inferior hands reproduced in woodcut outline Hubert Goltzius’ medallion portraits of Roman emperors, originally executed in chiaroscuro (see p.
After this period little was done in the medium until 1721, when Count Antonio Maria Zanetti in Venice made his first chiaroscuro woodcut.
The Chiaroscuro Tradition The chiaroscuro woodcut was originally designed to serve a special purpose, to reproduce drawings of the Renaissance period.
All started with chiaroscuro and moved to full color from a large number of wood blocks, although in 1836 Baxter began printing his transparent oil colors over a base of steel engraving reinforced with aquatint.
His novel chiaroscuro experiments had consumed valuable time and had lost him his standing as a steady worker for printers.
Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, after Raphael, made about 1727, was probably Jackson’s first chiaroscuro woodcut.
It may not have the depth of tone and mastery of chiaroscuro which make the Beaumont "Adoration" so subtly attractive, but in tenderness of feeling and daintiness of treatment it is not surpassed by any other of Giorgione's works.
Hamerton, writing upon Rembrandt, says, "The chiaroscuro of Rembrandt is often false and inconsistent, and in fact he relied largely on public ignorance.
They are chiaroscuro allegories in a bold bravura manner of the sixteenth century.
His chiaroscuro was too strong; virtue and villany appearing in pure black and white upon his pages.
For the most part, the clouds are small and spotty, ill-assorting with the grandeur of the landscapes, and never assisting the chiaroscuro in an artistic sense.
He belongs to the poets of chiaroscuro and the poets of colouring; but in both regions he maintains the individuality so strongly expressed in his choice of purely sensuous beauty.
Both chiaroscuro and colouring have this supreme purpose in art, to effect the sense like music, and like music to create a mood in the soul of the spectator.
He supplied what was wanting in the colour and chiaroscuro according to Raphael's design, but not certainly as Raphael would himself have done it.
In very ordinary language and in its action common to all schools, chiaroscuro is the art of rendering the atmosphere visible, and painting an object enveloped with air.
In the centre (corresponding with the figures in chiaroscuro over Adam and Eve) are two kneeling female figures represented as sibyls.
Without any doubt chiaroscuro is the native and necessary form of his impressions and ideas.
Its character may further be said to consist in a fine study of the chiaroscuro and of draperies, rather than of the human figure, in which few artists of the school can boast much excellence.
By the use of his chiaroscuro he not only gave superior softness and rotundity to his forms, but displayed a taste in the whole composition, such as had never been witnessed before.
There is more of atmosphere, of colour suggestion, and of chiaroscuro in the marble tondi described above.
I cannot remember any instances of those chiaroscuro washes which Raffaello handled in so masterly a manner, although Michelangelo frequently combined bistre shading with pen outlines.
He learned how to subordinate his colours; how to modify his chiaroscuro in order to force the immediate attention of the observer on the countenance of his subject.
Giorgione was less fine in some of his paintings than in others, for he paid more attention to chiaroscuro as he matured, but there is no instance where he painted in the broader manner occasionally exhibited by Titian.
There are no accessories; the clothing is subordinated to the last degree, and there is nothing for the eye to grasp but a perfectly drawn set of features thrown into strong relief by a method of chiaroscuro unsurpassed in depth and accuracy.
It all explains James's need of opacity, his reaching out for a chiaroscuro to distinguish himself from his contemporaries and in which he could put the whole of his much more complex apperception.
Pietro; and in the chapel wherein is the bronze tomb of Pope Sixtus, he painted in chiaroscuro the Apostles that are in the niches behind the altar, besides making the design of the Tabernacle of the Sacrament, which is very graceful.
In like manner, he executed a courtyard in chiaroscurofor Signor .
Maria del Fiore, made of wood, and so well decorated with various scenes inchiaroscuro by our Andrea, that nothing more could have been desired.
But as a type of academical chiaroscuroit will give you most valuable lessons on the other side--of warning.
It is effective to an ignorant eye, and is ingeniously disposed; but it is entirely conventional and false, unendurable by any person who knows what chiaroscuro is.
This is not because Holbein cannot give chiaroscuro if he chooses.
There are, however, two pieces of chiaroscuro implied in the treatment of the pig.
Mezzotint is properly to be considered as chiaroscurodrawing on metal.
For it is as a symbol, not as a scenic effect, that in each case the chiaroscuro is given.
And such studies, however accomplished, always mark a disposition to regard chiaroscuro too much, and local color too little.
The type forms in light and shade are less pronounced than those of linear construction, though through all compositions of effect, certain well defined schemes of chiaroscuro are traceable.
In both pictures the principles of chiaroscuro are strongly expressed, and we look closely before discovering that the first one is the second placed on end.
A development by chiaroscurois a necessity to the pictorial unity of the single figure.
This is the first step toward simplicity; some one thought made chief; therefore some one object in the composition of quantities and some one light in the scheme of chiaroscuro dominant.
At first his experiments in chiaroscuro were produced by the close mesh of etched lines, but it must be confessed that etching as such rather loses its character when the line is so entirely lost in tone.
Spinello knew much better how to draw than how to execute a painting, as it may be seen in our book of the drawings of diverse ancient painters, in two Evangelists in chiaroscuro and a S.
He was portrayed inchiaroscuro by Paolo Uccello in S.
He was considered a master of chiaroscuro and atmospheric perspective.
The lines are pliant, immersed in shading, color is suggested in a subtle fashion and, in contrast to the almost brutal emphasis of the North, it finds expression in chiaroscuro and concealed harmonies.
Thus they were familiar with chiaroscuro before the European painters.
Perfection in chiaroscuro drawing lies between these two masters, Rembrandt and Dürer.
This difference in chiaroscuro is a more important character in water-painting than mere difference in form.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chiaroscuro" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
