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- noun Plural form of
chiaroscurist .
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Examples
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In the world created by the chiaroscurists who followed in his footsteps -- Rimbaud?
A Wee Happy Glow Hal Duncan 2005
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In the world created by the chiaroscurists who followed in his footsteps -- Rimbaud?
Archive 2005-09-01 Hal Duncan 2005
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If the _cognoscenti_ complained that he had buried the chiaroscurists after da Carpi, he always had the explanation that others did not work in the Italian style, which he neglected to describe.
John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen
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Andrea Andreani acquired a large number of blocks by previous Italian chiaroscurists and reissued them, adding his own monogram.
John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen
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One characteristic was shared in common by all early chiaroscurists; their work always reproduced drawings, usually in exact size.
John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen
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The colorists and chiaroscurists, such as Titian on the one hand and
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Most other Italian chiaroscurists made frequent use of this method which had the virtue of simplicity.
John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen
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Lecture [9] you will find it said that the colorists can always adopt as much chiaroscuro as suits them, and so become perfect; but the chiaroscurists cannot, on their part, adopt color, except partially.
Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 John Ruskin 1859
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Only remember this, that Holbein and Turner are Greek chiaroscurists, nearly perfect by adopted color; Titian and Tintoret are essentially Gothic colorists, quite perfect by adopted chiaroscuro.
Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 John Ruskin 1859
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Still, he so nearly made himself a Venetian that, as opposed to the Dutch academical chiaroscurists, he is to be considered a Venetian altogether.
Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 John Ruskin 1859
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