0 the use of areas of light and darkness in a painting:
Caravaggio is famous for his use of chiaroscuro.
The lighted crescent stands out from the dark ground with all the finesse of chiaroscuro, a veritable explosion of full sunlight.
A myriad of chiaroscuro and ombreggiamento effects added to the innumerable modifications in tone quality.
In this way, he creates a perceptual chiaroscuro whose palette plays with notions of boundary and accessibility, and envisions an escape.
As for chiaroscuro, it was "still destroying many who might be artists, and helping to fame many others, the sight of whose painting is a miseducation" (23).
Her black dress, long dark hair and features are rendered using chiaroscuro.
In many works, blotches of color are applied in mosaic-like patterns worked into the chiaroscuro.
The use of chiaroscuro is common throughout his works, through underexposure and adjustment in printing.
He specialized in chiaroscuro wood carving, especially of religious themes and scenes.
