Platanistoidea
Platanistoidea (order Cetacea, suborder Odontoceti) A superfamily that comprises the one family Platinistidae (river dolphins), cetaceans which are believed to be related closely to the squalodonts (
Squalodontoidea) and to forms known from the early
Miocene, and to be more primitive than other Odon-toceti. The temporal opening is unroofed. The beak is long and slender, the teeth peg-like and vary in number according to species. The cervical vertebrae are not fused, and the neck is distinct. The flippers are broad and short, the dorsal fin low, and the tail slightly notched at the mid-line. River dolphins grow to a length of 1.5–2.9 m. There are five species in four genera.
Platanista, which is blind, is found in the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra rivers of India, and there are two species;
Inia inhabits the Amazon and upper Orinoco rivers of S. America;
Pontoporia is found in the estuary of the La Plata river, and along the south-east coast of S. America;
Lipotes is found only in Lake Dongting, on the Changtze Jiang river, in China.
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Chiaroscuro: art, personalized gifts. (Chicago, Illinois) (Company Profile)
Magazine article from: Gifts & Decorative Accessories; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; Chiaroscuro, according to Webster's dictionary...gift and decorative accessories store, Chiaroscuro. The 2,400-sq.-ft. stage for...Isaacs and Wolf. Isaacs characterizes Chiaroscuro as a starting place for artists. The...
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CHIAROSCURO
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst; 10/11/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...italienischen Terminologie mit dem Doppelwort Chiaroscuro beschrieben -, in dem ein geheimnisvolles...zhlt zu den wichtigsten Effekten des Chiaroscuro: die gezielt offen gehaltene Frage...Sfumato, einer bestimmten Form der Chiaroscuro-Malerei, in der auf dramatisierende...
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Chiaroscuro's fresh retail perspective; Judy Aldridge's Dallas store reflects an offbeat fashion outlook. (Dallas supplement) (company profile)
Magazine article from: WWD; 5/16/1989; ; 700+ words
; Chiaroscuro's Fresh Retail Perspective Judy Aldridge...themselves and fashion very seriously, Chiaroscuro is proving that customers just want...moire taffeta-draped dressing rooms, Chiaroscuro (which means placement of light and...
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X-ray visions: radiography, chiaroscuro, and the fantasy of unsuspicion in film noir.(Critical essay)(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Film Criticism; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...neophyte is the lighting technique known as chiaroscuro, the angular alternation of dark shadows...Whereas critics have long suggested that chiaroscuro fittingly evokes the postwar milieu...deeply. Instead of arguing about what chiaroscuro is supposed to represent historically...
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CHIAROSCURO\
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 6/5/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Philippines. Guerrero's photographic exhibition Chiaroscuro premieres at Calmer House Gallery in Joliet...shadows and highlights," he said. Translated, chiaroscuro means clear dark. Chiaroscuro is a technique in which the artist colors nearby...
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The Arts: The Technical Term is... Chiaroscuro
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/11/2000; ; 491 words
; ...compound of chiaro-oscuro. A picture in chiaroscuro is one where light and shade are highly...light. You can also talk, about the chiaroscuro of a picture, meaning its handling...by Velasquez and Rembrandt. Strong chiaroscuro is very dramatic. The invading light...
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The digital camera improves student learning.(teaching chiaroscuro)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: School Arts; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...my classroom and taught a lesson on chiaroscuro technique. We visited Mark Harden...site.htm), looking at specific chiaroscuro drawings by Leonardo daVinci, Albrecht...from which they would create the actual chiaroscuro still-life drawing. They developed...
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Urban Chiaroscuro; An exhibition of recent work by Emily Allchurch; 9th October - 10th November 2007.
M2 Presswire; 10/16/2007; 700+ words
; ...Frost & Reed Contemporary: Urban Chiaroscuro; An exhibition of recent work by Emily...social order of his time. For Urban Chiaroscuro, Allchurch has reconstructed seven...attempting to impose order and control. Chiaroscuro', from the Italian meaning clear dark...
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Ask Calliope.(Chinese use of jade and adobe, Leanardo da Vinci 's use of chiaroscuro)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Leanardo da Vinci and read that he used chiaroscuro? What is it? --Bess, 9, Web post...real. The technique Leonardo used was chiaroscuro. Instead of using colors with no shading...two-dimensional surface. The word "chiaroscuro" is a derivative of two Italian words...
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Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity.
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books; 11/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...past two decades. Her essays on Italian American culture in Chiaroscuro weave themselves into a moving memoir, the unforgettable...confronted, overridden and beaten them. She emerges from Chiaroscuro as both a serious literary artist and a spokesperson with...
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chiaroscuro woodcut
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
chiaroscuro woodcut. A type of woodcut in which tonal...One of the earliest dated examples of a chiaroscuro woodcut is The Emperor Maximilian on Horseback...colour may be claimed as a descendant of the chiaroscuro woodcut.
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chiaroscuro
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
chiaroscuro (Italian: ‘bright-dark’). Term describing...they are strongly contrasting. Leonardo was the great pioneer of bold chiaroscuro, but the term is associated above all with 17th-century artists...
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Alfred Stieglitz
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...matter." He called these photographs "Equivalents," and they almost rivaled abstract art in their beauty of form and chiaroscuro. In 1929 Stieglitz opened An American Place, a gallery where he showed paintings by contemporary Americans and, later...
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Jan Vermeer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...considerations, has found general acceptance, though some points continue to be argued. Early Works The warm colors and emphatic chiaroscuro of The Procuress relate it to paintings of the Rembrandt school of the 1650s, but its subject matter and composition reflect...
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Artemisia Gentileschi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in their focussed realism, obviously works of the Caravaggist school—especially the former, with its bold chiaroscuro. But they introduce us to some distinctive traits of Gentileschi's own: in the Judith a greater freedom of brushwork...
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