chiarascuro

Updated: June 30, 2025

That chiarascuro, or treatment of light and shade, in which Lionardo and Andrea Mantegna were no mean proficients, was brought to such perfection by Correggio, that, as Mrs Jameson has sought to illustrate technical expressions, 'you seem to look through.

Sarah Tytler - The Old Masters and Their Pictures: For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art