"Chiaroscurist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sadness of their effect, I repeat. If you remember anything of the Lectures I gave you through last year, you must be gradually getting accustomed to my definition of the Greek school in art, as one essentially Chiaroscurist, as opposed to Gothic color; Realist, as opposed to Gothic imagination; and Despairing, as opposed to Gothic hope. And you are prepared to recognize it by any one of these three conditions. Only, observe, ...
— Lectures on Landscape - Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 • John Ruskin |
