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    Chiaroscuro is an Italian technique using strong contrasts between light and dark to create a sense of three-dimensional surfaces and volume. It was developed during the Renaissance and used by artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Vermeer. Rembrandt and Caravaggio are known for their tenebrist or dark style of chiaroscuro that adds mood. The technique involves highlighting zones of maximum illumination, lights, shadows, core shadows, and reflected or cast shadows organized in a grayscale or shadow gradient.

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    Chiaroscuro is an Italian technique using strong contrasts between light and dark to create a sense of three-dimensional surfaces and volume. It was developed during the Renaissance and used by artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Vermeer. Rembrandt and Caravaggio are known for their tenebrist or dark style of chiaroscuro that adds mood. The technique involves highlighting zones of maximum illumination, lights, shadows, core shadows, and reflected or cast shadows organized in a grayscale or shadow gradient.

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    Chiaroscuro

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    Chiaroscuro is an Italian technique using strong contrasts between light and dark to create a sense of three-dimensional surfaces and volume. It was developed during the Renaissance and used by artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Vermeer. Rembrandt and Caravaggio are known for their tenebrist or dark style of chiaroscuro that adds mood. The technique involves highlighting zones of maximum illumination, lights, shadows, core shadows, and reflected or cast shadows organized in a grayscale or shadow gradient.

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    Light and shade

    Chiaroscuro is an Italian word that means the combination of light and dark

    Diego Koi Implosione (pencil on paper)

    In Art, Chiaroscuro Technique is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark . It is also a term used by artists for using contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume. The use of dark and light create an effect of threedimensional surfaces.

    Mark Bornowski Peach (pencil on paper)

    The Chiaroscuro Technique was born during the Italian Renaissance (16th Century). The most important Renaissance Artists used this technique to create a sense of volume.

    Leonardo Da Vinci Head of a woman

    Chiaroscuro Technique can also be used in painting, not only in drawing.

    Vermeer- Girl with a pearl.

    Violent chiaroscuro, dark manner used to lend mood or emotional expression. Two of the most important Tenebrist artists are Rembrandt and Caravaggio.

    Judith beheading Holofernes, by Caravaggio

    The Anatomy Lesson, by Rembrandt

    Highlight: maximum illumination zone. Light: clear zone, but darker than the highlight. Shadow: dark zone, but not the most. Core shadow: the darkest part of the shade. Reflected light: light reflects in the back. Cast shadow: shades on the surface, for example the table.

    The different tones of grey we can find in a chiaroscuro are called VALUES. If we organize values one by one as a scale, we call it GRAYSCALE.

    If we organize values one by one gradually, we call it SHADOW GRADIENT.

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