Chiaroscuro

Lexie Genthner The term Baroque meaning irregular pearl or stone derived from the Portuguese it is described as a fairly complex idiom which began in Rome and progressed during the 1590’s through 1700 it embraced sculpture, painting, as well as architecture. The style is profoundly tied to the religious and political context during this century after the protestant reformation the catholic church began its own counter reformation to ameliorate its power and attract more followers to the faith.…

Supporting the flowing art market and the popularity of his portraits, Rembrandt van Rijn sold his (what is being called) Aristotle with a Bust of Homer. It is known that the piece was originally purchased in by the prince of Sicily, Don Antonio Ruffo, but whether it was also commissioned by him is unknown. Regardless, the illustrations in the imitative portrait appear to be of Rembrandt’s whole decision. Shown is a deeply pensive, abstracted Aristotle with his hand on a bust of the late-poet…

His wife was killed by a possessed ventriloquist doll named Billy. The main cast of the movie are in attendance, Jamie being desperate for answers stumbles across the Billy’s owner’s grave, Mary Shaw. In the funeral scene we see a good example of Chiaroscuro Lighting in Zettl’s book. All the people are wearing dark clothes and you mainly see selective illumination in the hands, partially to the faces. The lighting also has key light and back light, which helps to illuminate the character Jamie’s…

Chiaroscuro: Chiaroscuro is noticeable in the creases of the mother and two children dress as well as the father. The color changes from a light to a darker color. Emotions/Dramatic: The mother is showing emotional gesture and hugging her children as a sign of protection…

perspective may not accord with nature and that the background was added to the painting to suggest space. Hans Memling, a German-born artist who was apprenticed under Rogier van der Weyden and then moved to Brussels after his master died, pushed chiaroscuro further for different reasons than those of Jan van Eyck. Hans Memling was famous for his distinctive approach, for softening the contours of faces in order to…

offers multiple mountain ranges and water canals, which vary in size and act as an exemplary example to the chiaroscuro…

The use of chiaroscuro is evident all over the painting, the different values of colors in the draped clothing on all of the subjects gives the fabric volume and brings them to life. The intense use of dark and light is seen in the emphasis around Socrates, therefore having the brightest shade in the painting to draw attention to him. The extreme shadowing in the hallway located next to direct sunlight is another excellent example of chiaroscuro, as it shows the dramatic nature…

first teacher that taught him was Jacob van Swanenburgh, he was taught the fundamentals of an artist. Jacob specialized in scenes of hell and the underworld, and he would paint fire manipulating with the light in the paintings, also similar to the “chiaroscuro” technique. Rembrandt would later use this idea of lighting and apply it to his works later on in the future. His second teacher, Pieter Lastman, taught him how to master genre. The genre included placing figures from biblical, historical…

29, 1571 in Milan. Caravaggio lived a very scandalous lifestyle (Caravaggio). What made Caravaggio’s paintings stand out was the realism he used through his painting techniques. Caravaggio is widely credited for popularizing and revolutionizing “chiaroscuro”, which was a painting method that focused on the contrasts between light and darkness in a painting. It is said that Caravaggio is one of the most well known artists…

by two women like figures undressing and one man like figure standing by an open door. The light shining out of the windows and open door highlight the women’s undergarments which hang loosely in plain view by the man’s shadow. I argue that the chiaroscuro presented in this work creates a visual vocabulary of warmth and invitation which reflects the feminist conversation of the 1950s, and thus, advocates women 's rights of political, social, and economic equality to men. Mabel Dwight’s Summer’s…