Chiaroscuro - Gallery

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Chiaroscuro in modelling; Paintings

• Fra Angelico in about 1450 already uses chiaroscuro modelling in all elements of the painting.

• Saint Sebastian by Botticelli, 1474.

• Velázquez uses subtle highlights and shading on the face and clothes.

• The Milkmaid, Vermeer's use of light to model throughout his compositions is exceptionally complex and delicate.

Chiaroscuro in modelling; Prints and drawings

• Delicate engraved lines of hatching and cross-hatching, not all distinguishable in reproduction, are used to model the faces and clothes in this late 15th century engraving

• Another 15th-century engraving showing highlights and shading, all in lines in the original, used to depict volume.

• Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci

• Another study by Leonardo, where the linear make-up of the shading is easily seen in reproduction.

Chiaroscuro as a major element in composition: painting

• Allegory, Boy Lighting Candle in Company of Ape and Fool by El Greco

• Annunciation by Domenico Beccafumi

• Crucifixion of St. Peter by Caravaggio

• The Flight to Egypt by Adam Elsheimer

• Landscape chiaroscuro, Jan Both

• Nativity by Gerard van Honthorst

• Mary Magdalene, by Georges de La Tour

• St. Peter in prison by Rembrandt

• The Proposition by Judith Leyster

• Antoine Watteau - La Partie carrée

• Fragonard, The Lock, 1780

• Goya, Christ on the Mount of Olives

Chiaroscuro as a major element in composition: photography

• Portrait

• Female nude study

• figurenude study, monochrome

• Hijab doll in shadow

• Male nude light and shadow

Chiaroscuro faces

• Saint Jerome by José de Ribera

• An Old Man in Red by Rembrandt

• Self-Portrait by John Everett Millais

• The Knitting Girl by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Chiaroscuro drawings and woodcuts

• Man of Sorrows, chiaroscuro drawing on coloured paper, 1516, by Hans Springinklee

• A 19th-century version of the original type of chiaroscuro drawing, with coloured paper, white gouache highlights, and pencil shading.

• Saturn, anon Italian, 16th? century. Italian style chiaroscuro woodcut, with four blocks, but no real line block, and looking rather like a watercolour.

• Ludolph Buesinck, Aeneas carries his father. German style, with line block and brown tone block