{"id":2125,"date":"2007-07-04T01:08:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T00:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2008-07-21T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T16:50:09","slug":"chiaroscuro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/04\/chiaroscuro\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiaroscuro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heavenly Love and Earthly Love by Giovanni Baglione (1602\u20131603).<\/em><\/p>\n

Chiaroscuro\\, Chia`ro*scu”ro\\, Chiaro-oscuro\\, Chi*a”ro-os*cu”ro\\, n. [It., clear dark.] (a) The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in colour. (b) The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Following from the earlier post<\/a> about shadows in art, some favourite examples by masters of chiaroscuro<\/em>. Another artist not represented here will be the subject of a post of his own in the next couple of days. The Dutch painter Godfried Schalcken (below) was the subject of the horror tale Schalcken the Painter<\/em> by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu<\/a>, a story memorably filmed<\/a> by Leslie Megahey for BBC television in 1979. Horror and the chiaroscuro<\/em> effect belong together, as Fuseli’s Nightmare<\/em> demonstrates, and many of Schalcken’s paintings seem even more curious and sinister after you’ve read Le Fanu’s story.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> John Klima points us to Hal Duncan<\/a>‘s excellent story, The Chiaroscurist<\/em>, which you can read at Electric Velocipede<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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David by Caravaggio (1600). <\/em><\/p>\n

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Two men examining a statue by candlelight by Godfried Schalcken (no date). <\/em><\/p>\n

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The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli (1791). <\/em><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Shadows at Compton Verney<\/a>
\n\u2022 Vanitas paintings<\/a>
\n\u2022 HP Lovecraft’s favourite artists<\/a>
\n\u2022 Angels 1: The Angel of History and sensual metaphysics <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heavenly Love and Earthly Love by Giovanni Baglione (1602\u20131603). Chiaroscuro\\, Chia`ro*scu”ro\\, Chiaro-oscuro\\, Chi*a”ro-os*cu”ro\\, n. [It., clear dark.] (a) The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in colour. (b) The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts … Continue reading “Chiaroscuro”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,22,44,19],"tags":[226,2537,4193,2557,6618,1687,774],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-horror","category-painting","category-television","tag-caravaggio","tag-giovanni-baglione","tag-godfried-schalcken","tag-hal-duncan","tag-henry-fuseli","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-leslie-megahey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-yh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}