Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro is a technique used by many artists and playwrights to display the contrast of light and dark. William Shakespeare expertly uses light and dark imagery in his tragic play Romeo and Juliet to help the audience understand his play to a new depth. It is obvious that light and dark imagery is present throughout majority of the play thus; through the expert use of this literary device Shakespeare is able to give the audience a deeper understanding of certain characters and to show the…

have influenced their Italian successors, we could set the foundation through comparison. Then, by discussing the characteristic of chiaroscuro in each period, we could see the direction of development in this technique in portraiture. Finally, by analyzing Leonardo da Vinci’s advanced skill, we could appreciate its delicacy and the harmony of symbolism and chiaroscuro. The conclusion will look at the general difference between the attitudes to nature in the two regions. Art…

When examining the narrative of Catalina de Erauso, violence, transgression, revenge, and aggression are very present and the reader is exposed to his perceptions of masculinity vs. femininity in the Spanish Baroque. The concept of a born female dressing or becoming male was a prevalent occurrence in the Golden Age of Spain, and can be seen in many other works of literature and plays. Lazarillo de Tormes allows the reader insight into elements of Baroque literature such as race, class, and…

Rhetorical Analysis Proposal of The Young Beggar Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painted The Young Beggar in 1650. The painting depicts the life of a young, poverty stricken Spaniard orphan delousing himself inside of a dilapidated building. Bartolomé was an artist from Seville, Spain during the Golden Age of the country. He was generally a more religious artist, but during 1642, he traveled to Madrid, where Spanish artists Velázquez and Zurbarán heavily influenced him. The creation of…

each setting is that the artists chose for viewers to interact with their works. The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Vermeer is a small oil and canvas painting. Vermeer uses a technique called chiaroscuro. He spotlights the girls face bathing it light while the background is all black. By using chiaroscuro Vermeer realizes three dimensions in his painting. The viewer feels that the girl is gazing at them ready to speak. Her facial skin is flawless the only item in the painting more luminous is…

their work. Individualism was also seen as some artists used subjects as the focal point or in statues as free standing. Chiaroscuro is the light and shadow was used to create the illusion of depth by making images appear more three dimensional. Finally, the complex arrangement, the paintings often had several things occurring in the painting at once, perspective, chiaroscuro was also employed in the work to convey the…

For my museum visit paper, I decided to go to the Dali Museum. On my visit, I encountered a painting created by Salvador Dali titled “Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea, which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln”. Dali was born in Figueres, Spain in 1904 and was mainly a surrealist painter. This artwork was created around 1976 and it was painted using oil and collage on canvas. The style of this artwork would be considered surrealism, because of its irrational use of…

Andrea Pozzo. You will also see different points I will bring up explaining why this painting is important and also why it caught my attention. There are multiple main points I will bring up that this piece has, such as, perspective, illusion, chiaroscuro, etc. Fra Andrea Pozzo, Glorification of saint Ignatius (pg.720) The Glorification of Saint Ignatius is a ceiling fresco painted by Fra Andrea Pozzo in the nave of Sant’Ignazio, Rome, Italy from 1691 to 1694. The painting Pozzo draw shows…

Caravaggio and Caravaggisti in 17th-Century Europe Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was one of the most imitated artists in history. A lot of artists from around the world considered themselves to be his followers. Caravaggio never liked the imitation of his style but he was unable to stop it from happening. Artists like Baglione, Carlo Saraceni, and Guercino imitated his style for only a short period of their careers while others dedicated their lives to imitate him. The quality of his work…

various works were sponsored by the Catholic Church, aspiring to compel worshippers to their doors. Successful baroque paintings demanded an audience, ones to admire the theatrical aestheticism; only artists who employed elements of tenebrism and chiaroscuro achieved such breathtaking drama. Two prime examples that applied these practices include Saint Ignatius of Loyola by Peter Paul Rubens and Saint Francis in Prayer by Francisco de Zubarán, each prolific in which the subject is displayed, how…