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chiaroscuro

noun

1 chiaroscuro

A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color.

Roget 420: light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil; sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora.    day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; ... show more

Roget 421: darkness etc. adj., absence of light; blackness etc. (dark color) 431; obscurity, gloom, murk; dusk etc. (dimness) ... show more

Roget 431: blackness, etc. adj.; darkness, etc. (want of light).. 421; swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color; chiaroscuro etc. ... show more

Roget 432: gray etc. adj.; neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille [Fr.].    [Pigments] Payne's gray; black etc. 431.   

Roget 556: painting; depicting; drawing etc. v.; design; perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy; chiaroscuro etc. (light) 420; composition; ... show more

Dutch: clair-obscur, lichtschakering
Polish: światłocień


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