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==Gallery== Chiaroscuro in modelling; paintings <gallery> File:Fra Angelico 005.jpg|[[Fra Angelico]] c. 1450 uses chiaroscuro modelling in all elements of the painting File:Sandro Botticelli 054.jpg|''[[Saint Sebastian]]'' by [[Botticelli]], 1474 File:Retrato de Juan Pareja, by Diego Velázquez.jpg|''[[Portrait of Juan de Pareja]]'', c. 1650 by [[Diego Velázquez]], uses subtle highlights and shading on the face and clothes File:Johannes Vermeer - Het melkmeisje - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[The Milkmaid (Vermeer)|The Milkmaid]]'' c. 1658, by [[Johannes Vermeer]], whose use of light to model throughout his compositions is exceptionally complex and delicate </gallery> Chiaroscuro in modelling; prints and drawings <gallery> File:Meckenem.jpg|Delicate engraved lines of hatching and cross-hatching, not all distinguishable in reproduction, are used to model the faces and clothes in this late-fifteenth-century [[engraving]] File:Herkules und Antäus (Mantegna).jpg|Another fifteenth-century engraving showing highlights and shading, all in lines in the original, used to depict volume File:Study of Arms and Hands.jpg|Drawing by [[Leonardo da Vinci]] File:Study for the Kneeling Leda.jpg|Another study by Leonardo, where the linear make-up of the shading is easily seen in reproduction </gallery> Chiaroscuro as a major element in composition: painting <gallery widths="120px" heights="120px" perrow="4"> File:Domenico Beccafumi 070.jpg|''[[Annunciation]]'' by [[Domenico Beccafumi]], 1545–46 File:El Greco - Allegory, Boy Lighting Candle in Company of Ape and Fool (Fábula).JPG|''Allegory, Boy Lighting Candle in Company of Ape and Fool'' by [[El Greco]], 1589–1592 File:Caravaggio-Crucifixion of Peter.jpg|''[[Crucifixion of St. Peter (Caravaggio)|Crucifixion of St. Peter]]'' by [[Caravaggio]], 1600 File:Adam Elsheimer - Die Flucht nach Ägypten (Alte Pinakothek) 2.jpg|''The Flight to Egypt'' by [[Adam Elsheimer]], 1609 File:Rembrandt van Rijn "Petrus in de gevangenis" (St. Peter in prison).jpg|''St. Peter in prison'' by [[Rembrandt]], 1631 File:Judith Leyster The Proposition.jpg|''[[The Proposition (painting)|The Proposition]]'' by [[Judith Leyster]], 1631 File:Georges de La Tour 007.jpg|''[[Magdalene with the Smoking Flame]]'', by [[Georges de La Tour]], c. 1640 File:Bal26151-Jan-Both.jpg|Landscape chiaroscuro, [[Jan Both]], 1646 File:Gerard van Honthorst 002.jpg|''[[Adoration of the Shepherds (Stom)|Adoration of the Shepherds]]'' by [[Matthias Stom]], mid-17th century File:Antoine Watteau - La Partie carrée.jpg|[[Antoine Watteau]] – ''La Partie carrée'', c. 1713 File:An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768.jpg|''[[An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump]]'' by [[Joseph Wright of Derby]], 1768 File:Jean-Honoré Fragonard 009.jpg|''[[The Bolt (Fragonard)|The Bolt]]'' by [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]], c. 1777 File:Goya Christ.jpg|''Christ on the Mount of Olives'' by [[Francisco Goya]], 1819 </gallery> Chiaroscuro as a major element in composition: photography <gallery widths="120" heights="120" perrow="4"> File:Golden Retriever Carlos im Wald (10580536693).jpg File:Bembel With Care (167479007).jpeg File:Woman (Imagicity 501).jpg </gallery> Chiaroscuro faces <gallery> File:José de Ribera 011.jpg|''Saint Jerome'' by [[José de Ribera]], 1652 File:Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - An Old Man in Red.JPG|''An Old Man in Red'', by [[Rembrandt]], 1652–1654 File:The Knitting Woman painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.jpg|''[[The Knitting Girl]]'' by [[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]], 1869 File:Millais - Self-Portrait.jpg|''Self-Portrait'' by [[John Everett Millais]], 1881 </gallery> Chiaroscuro drawings and woodcuts <gallery> File:Springinklee schmerzensmann.jpg|''[[Man of Sorrows]]'', chiaroscuro drawing on coloured paper, 1516, by [[Hans Springinklee]] File:William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - Study of a Seated Veiled Female Figure (19th Century).png|A nineteenth-century version of the original type of chiaroscuro drawing, with coloured paper, white gouache highlights, and pencil shading File:5316 bassenge saturn.jpg|[[Saturn (mythology)|Saturn]], anon. Italian, sixteenth-century?, Italian style chiaroscuro woodcut, with four blocks, but no real line block, and looking rather like a watercolour File:5049 bassenge chiaroscuro.jpg|[[Ludolph Buesinck]], Aeneas carries his father, German style, with line block and brown tone block </gallery>
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