Editing Chiaroscuro (section)

===Origin in the chiaroscuro drawing===
[[File:Christ at Rest, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg|thumb|left|''Christ at Rest'', by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], 1519, a chiaroscuro drawing using pen, ink, and brush, washes, white heightening, on ochre prepared paper]]
The term ''chiaroscuro'' originated during the [[Renaissance]] as drawing on coloured paper, where the artist worked from the paper's base tone toward light using white [[gouache]], and toward dark using ink, [[bodycolour]] or [[watercolour]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080421003620/http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/fogg/drawingglossary.html#C#C Harvard Art Museum glossary] (accessed 30 August 2007). See also Metropolitan external link</ref><ref>[http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/recent_acquisitions/1998/co_rec_eur_1998_15.asp Example from the Metropolitan] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220055933/http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/recent_acquisitions/1998/co_rec_eur_1998_15.asp |date=December 20, 2008 }}</ref> These in turn drew on traditions in [[illuminated manuscript]]s going back to late Roman Imperial manuscripts on [[Purple parchment|purple-dyed vellum]]. Such works are called "'''chiaroscuro drawings'''", but may only be described in modern museum terminology by such formulae as "pen on prepared paper, heightened with white bodycolour".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/holbein/rooms/room8.htm|title=Holbein in England – Tate|work=tate.org.uk|access-date=2012-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217103201/http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/holbein/rooms/room8.htm|archive-date=2011-12-17}}</ref> Chiaroscuro woodcuts began as imitations of this technique.<ref>David Landau & Peter Parshall, ''The Renaissance Print'', pp.&nbsp;180–84; Yale, 1996, {{ISBN|0-300-06883-2}} – discusses these at length. Also see Metropolitan external link.</ref> When discussing Italian art, the term sometimes is used to mean painted images in monochrome or two colours, more generally known in English by the French equivalent, [[grisaille]]. The term broadened in meaning early on to cover all strong contrasts in [[Illumination (image)|illumination]] between light and dark areas in art, which is now the primary meaning.