Chiaroscuro [adjective]

They all deal with questions of technique, on effects of light and shadow, on the mystery of chiaroscuro.

His colouring is of an amazing softness, depth, and strength; his chiaroscuro is warm and vaporous.

But none of this character is assisted by the colouring, or the chiaroscuro.

And in the Flemish school, Rubens and Vandyke made their designs for the most part either in colours or in chiaroscuro.

In the decoration of this Correggio surpassed himself in his mastery of chiaroscuro and the foreshortening of the human figure.

This is one of his most successful pictures for chiaroscuro, tone, and spirited handling.

Like Tristan, they hate the day as the destroyer of poetry, and swathe themselves in the trembling chiaroscuro of twilight.

The "chiaroscuro" is so clever that you can look through the shadows into the substance.

In some of his works, however, the attempt to adopt the chiaroscuro of Leonardo led to an over-darkening of the shadows.

(a very chiaroscuro scene in a tumble-down cottage, light from above).