chiaroscuro
(Italian, ‘light-dark’)A term used to describe the effects of light and dark in a work of art, particularly when they are strongly contrasting. Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneer of chiaroscuro but it is most frequently discussed in relation to the paintings of the 17th-century artists Caravaggio and Rembrandt. The English landscape painter ... ...
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