Chiaroscuro 1500-1800

By Marcie F. Slepian. For three hundred years, from about 1508 until the end of the eighteenth century, printmakers experimented with chiaroscuro woodcuts in their attempts to simulate original works of art. Relatively few in number, rarely produced by artists working from their own designs, chiaroscuros may still astonish us by their powers of replicating the tonal gradations of wash drawings, watercolors, and gouaches (1993; 48 pp.; 12 ill.). $10.00