10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLAIR-OBSCURE»
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clair-obscure in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Builder's Dictionary Or Gentleman and Architect's ...
CLAIR OBSCURE ? . CH1ARO SCUR05ia Painting, is the Art of distributing to
Advantage the Lights and Shades of a Piece ; both with Regard to the eating the
Eye, and the Effect of the whole Piece. Thus, when a Painter gives his. Figures a
...
2
The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy
... da Vinci A correft drawing - - exquifite defigning - management of the clair-
obscure, and colouring divine colouring and morbidezza of his flesh; angelical
grace and joyous airs of his figures and clair-obscure great correfitness ofdefign,
grand ...
Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Sir Joshua Reynolds,
1783
3
The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...
... Vinci - - exquisite design- Hist. and ing Portraits Giorgio Giorgione - imitated
Lionardds managementofthe Hist. and manner - - clair-obscure, Portraits and
colouring Antonio da Cor- - - divine colouring Hist. and reggio and morbidez-
Portraits ...
4
An Account of Some of the Statues, Bas-reliefs, Drawings and ...
Notte : Perfectly well preserv'd, and has than admirable Splendor that 'tis always
remarked for ; and indeed 'tis perhaps the first; Picture in the World for the Clair-
Obscure. The greatest Masters in this part of Painting are Correggio, Rubens,
and ...
Jonathan Richardson,
1722
5
A General and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts: ...
II Bagnacavallo, Innocenzo d'Imola the same ; Giulio Romano Primaticcio
Lorenzo Costa, Titian Giov. Bellini. the same Giorgione Raffaelle. soft and fleshy
colouring, correct drawing. management of the clair-obscure, and colouring. ivine
...
6
The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies and Conquests; ...
... admirably coloured as the glowing productions of Titian. That the Greeks were
acquainted with the effect of the clair obscure, or the distribution of all the tones of
light and shade relatively to the different plans of the picture, has been denied ...
7
The Literary Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Literature, ...
The strong lights thus rising in actual relievo from a retiring ground, usually
prepared of a very dark shade, contributed powerfully to the force of their clair
obscure; to which also the manner of rounding in the dry colour, losing it by soft ...
William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, John Morley,
1821
8
Cyclopaedia, Or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and ...
See CLAIR-OBSCURE. OBSCURE, something that is dark, or that only receives
and returns a little light. See LIGHT and SHADOW. Onscvaa is also 'used in a
figurative sense, for a thing that is not clear, express, and intelligible; that one
does ...
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Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts ...
CLAIR OBSCURE, 2 is also us'd to signify a design, con- CHAIRO SCURO, £
sifting only of two colours, most ufu- lly black and white ; but sometimes black and
yellow, or it is . design only wash'd with one colour, the shadows being of a Itisky
...
10
The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review
The strong lights thus rising in actual relievo from a retiring ground, usually
prepared of a very dark shade, contributed powerfully to the force of their clair
obscure; to which also the manner of rounding in the dry colour, losing it by soft ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLAIR-OBSCURE»
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Mbongwana Star souffle son punk sur l'afrobeat
Une fusion clair-obscure qui promet sur le dancefloor, avant un album à paraitre chez World Circuit le 18 mai prochain. A découvrir : "Shégué" ... «fip, Apr 15»
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D'une mélodie se rapprochant d'une ancienne boîte de musique appartement à l'enfance usée, elle en fait une belle mélodie clair-obscure, ... «Pause Musicale, Dec 14»