Chiaroscuro
Term describing effects of light and shade in a work of art, especially when there is strong contrast between the two. Sometimes a dramatic effect is created in a painting by a shaft of light, which gives sharp shadows like that given by a spotlight.
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The Children of John Taylor of Bifrons Park
by John Closterman
1696?
NPG 5320
Sir Christopher Wren
by Elisha Kirkall, after Henry Cook (Cooke), after John Closterman
circa 1720-1742
NPG D18735
Agostino Carlini; Francesco Bartolozzi; Giovanni Battista Cipriani
by John Francis Rigaud
1777
NPG 3186
The Death of the Earl of Chatham
by John Singleton Copley
1779-1781
NPG L146
Joan Collins
by Cornel Lucas
1951
NPG x27871
Christine Keeler
by Lewis Morley
1963
NPG P512(13)
Steve Martland
by Andrew Catlin
June 1989
NPG x35991
Linford Christie
by Alistair Morrison
February 1996
NPG x77035
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