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Definition of Chiaroscurist

Chiaroscurist
Chiaroscurist Chi*a`ros*cu"rist, n. A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.

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- 2019. Archibold, Randal (May 29, 1998). "Placed in the Shadows By a Chiaroscurist". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 2, 2008. Retrieved...
- crowned national spelling champ: Wins $10,000 by correctly spelling 'chiaroscurist'". CNN. 28 May 1998. Archived from the original on 16 March 2006. Retrieved...
- Ardenne High School, won the competition by correctly spelling the word "chiaroscurist". Maxwell was the second student from outside the United States to win...
- early style of Italian engravers differs greatly from that of a modern chiaroscurist. Mantegna, for example, did not draw and shade at the same time. He...
- fertile in capable painters; but Pordenone is the best known, a vigorous chiaroscurist and flesh painter. The 1911 Britannica states that "so far as mere flesh-painting...