Example sentences for: chiaroscuro

How can you use “chiaroscuro” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bullets explode in shards of glass and light, bringing death in chiaroscuro.

  • Tintoretto’s masterpiece in chiaroscuro effects is the grandiose Crucifixion in the Sala dell’Albergo.

  • Moore is known for her wordplay, wry humor, and smart, bitter female protagonists; this collection is said to show a "deepening emotional chiaroscuro" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times )--Moore's most warm and powerful to date.

  • No doubt about it, sitting chiaroscuro in the back of a limo next to a criminal defense attorney is a good look.

  • And compare Caravaggio’s mastery of chiaroscuro (the play of light and dark) in the service of realism in his violent Abraham and Isaac (1590) with the more contemplative style of Rembrandt in the famous Old Rabbi (1658) and other portraits.


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