What is Chiaroscuro?
Channel: CREAR Art and Culture
Date: 2021-03-02

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Artworks featured:
Andrea Mantegna, The Senators (N. 10, Triumphs of Caesar) (c. 1486-1505), Albertina.
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Study of Drapery (c. 1490), Gemäldegalerie.
Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa (c. 1503-1506), Louvre Museum.
Hans Holbein, the Younger, Christ Carrying the Cross (c. 1518), Kunstmuseum Basel.
Leonardo da Vinci, Drapery for a seated figure (15th century), Louvre Museum.
Ugo da Carpi after Parmigianino, Diogenes (c. 1527), Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Caravaggio, Judith and Holofernes (c. 1598-1599), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica.
Rembrandt, The Jewish Bride (c. 1665-1669), Rijksmuseum.
Johannes Vermeer, Girl with the Pearl Earring (c. 1665), The Mauritshuis.
Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare (1781), Detroit Institute of Arts.
Charles Auguste Varsavaux, Stars and Beauties (c. 1925).
Fritz Lang, Scene from the film 'Metropolis' (1927).