Word: chiaroscuro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Banning Cocq's conceited officers. This huge, sombre painting, generally called The Night Watch, is now recognized as one of the world's greatest. When it was unveiled, all Amsterdam laughed, both at the officers and at Rembrandt. Even his friends could not understand his modern chiaroscuro. As a result, Rembrandt's art went out of style, himself into bankruptcy...
...fine arts Dr. Johnny A. E. Roosval, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, and Director of the Art Institute of Stockholm, has been chosen Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. He will give a series of eight public lectures on "The Poetry of Chiaroscuro," during the months November through February...
...lectures in the additional series, which will be given in the New Lectures Hall at 5 o'clock, are as follows: November 13, "Finiguerra and the Beginnings of Engraving in Florence:" November 20. "Florentine Engravings:" November 25. "Mautegna and North Italian Engraving:" December 4. "Book Illustration:" December 11, "Chiaroscuro Woodcut:" and December 16. "Old Master Drawings...
...will be given on Thursdays at 5 o'clock starting on November 13 with a talk entitled "Finiguerra and the Beginnings of Engraving in Florence." Other dates and subjects are November 20, "Florentine Engravings;" November 25, "Mantegua and North Italian Engraving," December 4, "Book Illustration;" and December 11, "Chiaroscuro Woodcut...