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• n  a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color

• To taste the city's glorious Baroque past, feast your eyes on the chiaroscuro drama of the paintings adorning the Carthusian monastery of La Certosa di San Martino, tel: (39-081 .
• Then he is all that might be expected of somebody who is regarded as one of the top younger figures in the fieldfirm, precise, sensitive, adept at molding the rich chiaroscuro .
• It is also true that watching Casablanca for the chiaroscuro lighting rather than the dialogue is a bit like buying Playboy for the articles.

News & Articles

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• Chiaroscuro Exhibit at The Jax in Floyd on display through July 20
  The Jacksonville Center for the Arts presents its Chiaroscuro Exhibit, which will be on display through July 20 in the center’s Hayloft Gallery. Chiaroscuro was developed during the Renaissance and opened the doors to a plethora of powerful art with strong contrasting light and shadows. Participating artists have defined, redefined and interpreted this time-honored classic. [...]
  June 26, 2013 - Roanoke Times

Quotes

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• Santiago Calatrava in New York Times
  It is almost as if the building has an autonomous life,Mr. Calatrava said Thursday. "The shadows and the so-called chiaroscuro, they are not sharp-cut. They are round, in a way. They're very expressive. They're very strong. But still, they...
• Stewart Robertson in MiamiHerald.com
  It's a real chiaroscuro piece,Robertson says. "There's a lot of dark and a lot of light."
• Giorgio Vasari in Adnkronos/IGN
  However, Baccio Bandinelli's maximum artistic expression can be found in his sketches and drawings using sanguine chalk and about which Vasari stated the Bandinelli was "the greatest chiaroscuro draughtsman".