[Lexicog] Looking for a word

[Fritz Goerling]

I think Melissa Axelrod's reply is the right one: chiaroscuro.
In German it is Hell-Dunkel(Malerei), in French clair-obscur.
Representaive painters were: Leonardo da Vinci, Tizian, Caravaggio,
Rembrandt.

Fritz Goerling

How does "twilight" (German: Dämmerung) sound?

Chinedu Uchechukwu

Rudolph C Troike <rtroike at u.arizona.edu> wrote:

>
>This seems to be the right group to ask about a word for something. A
>friend of mine, a literary scholar, is writing a paper on Renaissance
>art, and asked me if I knew a word for the contrast between light and
>dark. I'm sure that there is something lexicalized in English (more likely
>in German!) for this concept, but I can't surface it from my internal
>thesaurus. Any suggestions?
>
>    Thanks,
>
>    Rudy Troike
>
>
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