chiaroscuro

Etymology
Mid-17th century, borrowed from, from +.

Noun

 * 1)  An artistic technique developed during the Renaissance, referring to the use of strong contrasts between light and dark in order to create the illusion of volume.
 * 2)  A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color.
 * 3)  A woodcut technique in which several woodcut blocks are used to print different shades of a color, or a woodcut print made by this technique.
 * 4)  A photographic technique in which one side of the subject, for example a face, is well lit and the other is in shadow.

Translations

 * Arabic: اَلْجَلْاَء وَاَلْقُتْمَة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: clarescuru
 * Basque: argi-ilun
 * Belarusian: святлаце́нь
 * Breton: sklêrijenn deñval, sklaer-ha-teñval, chiaroscuro
 * Bulgarian: све́тлося́нка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 明暗對照法
 * Czech: šerosvit
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: klarobskuro
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: clâr e scûr
 * Galician: clarescuro
 * Georgian: შუქჩრდილი
 * German: Chiaroscuro, Helldunkelmalerei, Clair-obscur
 * Greek:, , κιαροσκούρο
 * Hebrew: קִיָארוֹסְקָוּרוֹ
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: klar-obskuro
 * Irish: gealdorcha, chiaroscuro
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: キアロスクーロ, 明暗法, 陰影法
 * Kazakh: сәуле мен көлеңке
 * Korean: 키아로스쿠로,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: rohn û tarîtî
 * Lithuanian: kiaroskuras
 * Lombard:
 * Norwegian:, kjellerlys, clair-obscur
 * Occitan: clarescur
 * Persian: سایه‌روشن, کیاروسکورو
 * Piedmontese: ciàir-ëscur
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: chiaroscuro, ,
 * Romanian:, clar-obscur
 * Russian: кьяроску́ро,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: киароскуро
 * Roman: kjaroskuro
 * Slovene: chiaroscúro
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: klaroskuro
 * Tajik: рӯшноию тирагӣ
 * Tamil: சியாரோஸ்கியூரோ
 * Thai: ค่าต่างแสง
 * Turkish: ışık gölge, aşık koyu
 * Turkmen: ýagtylyk-kölege
 * Ukrainian: світлоті́нь

Adjective

 * 1)  Possessing the qualities of a work of chiaroscuro.

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)   artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
 * 2)  contrasts, ups and downs

Etymology
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