Chiaroscuro: Light and Dark Together

The very nature of light provides contrast. In juxtaposition, differing levels of light illuminate in extraordinary ways, helping us to see what we’ve been missing. In the late 1400s, the art world made a giant leap forward when some of the painters, sculptors, and woodblock printers of the era began to experiment with shading and using light in ways that began to achieve a sense of volume and dimension in their work. 

Chiaroscuro, it’s called. Light and dark together, side by…