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The Arts: The Technical Term is... Chiaroscuro
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ITALIAN FOR bright-dark - a compound of chiaro-oscuro. A picture
in chiaroscuro is one where light and shade are highly contrasted. At
its extreme, the scene is pitch black, with bodies and objects picked
out in a shaft of light. You can also talk, about the chiaroscuro of
a picture, meaning its handling of light and shade. Vasari uses the
term in his Life of Leonardo (1550). But the first artist to make it
central to his work was Caravaggio (1571-1610). His example was
followed throughout 17...
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Exhibit's a La Tour de force: Baroque artist's potent light-and-dark technique swaddles D.C. gallery.(Arts)(Painting)
The Washington Times
; Few artists painted light as intensely and emotionally as did Georges de La Tour, as we see in the first major U.S. retrospective mounted of his work. Georges de La Tour and His World, a concentrated showing of 33 paintings by and attributed to him and of 10 works by his contemporaries, opens at
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Rare La Tour Hung Unnoticed Till Viewer Saw the Light
The Washington Post
; An unsigned painting by 17th-century French master Georges de La Tour has been discovered in a Madrid mansion after hanging in offices unnoticed for decades. The painting, "Saint Jerome Reading a Letter," is only the second work by La Tour known to exist in Spain, and one of only about a dozen of
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La Tour in Paris: Of Light and Tragedy
International Herald Tribune
; Souren Melikian International Herald Tribune 10-11-1997 Some great art shows also tell a great story, but the ''Georges de La Tour'' (1593-1652) retrospective, at the Grand Palais until Jan. 26, beats them all. How the oeuvre of a great French master was forgotten to the point where his signature
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A Dark and Stormy Light; La Tour's Troubled Visions Raise Sobering Questions About Faith
The Washington Post
; The painter Georges de La Tour was a summoner of shadows. They creep into his pictures as they crept into his soul, deepening his doubts, darkening his joys. There are nearly 30 of his paintings in "Georges de La Tour and His World," which opened yesterday at the National Gallery of Art. These are
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Master of light
The Spectator
; Georges de La Tour (1593-1652) worked all his life in Lorraine, north-eastern France. It's possible that he travelled to Italy or into the Netherlands, given the nature of his art and influences, but there is no documentary proof of this. He was very successful in his lifetime, but then fell
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Touring La Tour's Work
The Washington Post
; YOUNG PAINTERS tend to put more art than heart into their early works, using tricks of technique to cover callowness. Georges de La Tour, on the other hand, was born deep but seems to have grown steadily shallower as he aged. La Tour (1593-1652), who lived and worked in relative obscurity in
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La Tour, Elizabeth "Liz"
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; La Tour, Elizabeth "Liz" Born to this life Oct. 14, 1916. Entered Eternal Life on Mon., Jan. 16, 2006, age 89. Preceded in death by her husband Clifford. Loving mother of Lyn (Jim) Reed, Richard La Tour (Jean Johnson) (Robin Farell) and Jac (Jackie) La Tour. Survived by sister Eleanor Stevenson.
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Caravaggio, and the Light of Truth
International Herald Tribune
; Roderick Conway Morris International Herald Tribune 11-25-2000 Caravaggio is currently the star of two exhibitions in Lombardy. In one of them, in Bergamo, he is the triumphant curtain-raiser of a dazzling display; in the other, in Milan, he is the final act of an oddly-skewed production where the
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Show illuminates Dutch painters' rich use of light.(Arts)(Art)
The Washington Times
; BALTIMORE - Hendrick Ter Brugghen's Saint Sebastian Attended by Saint Irene shows the early Christian martyr collapsing to the ground, filled with arrows, folding in on himself and into a dramatically swirled diagonal of fabric and limbs. One of many intensely moving paintings in the Walters Art
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FOOD & DRINK SPECIAL: WHAT, NO BLUE NUN?nt, where France's finest vintages are kept under the nose of one very proud Englishman You won't find every wine in La Tour d'Argent's cellars, but if it's a pounds 7,000 corker you're thirsting for, there's nowhere like it. Alix Sharkey goes underground in Paris's oldest - and most celebrated - restaura...
The Independent on Sunday
; La Tour d'Argent is a Paris institution. For a start, it bills itself as the city's oldest restaurant, an inn of the same name having been established on the site in 1582. Though comparatively modern, its menu has altered little over the past century, during which time its sixth- floor dining-room,
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