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<DIV class=printfooter><SPAN class=343532912-19052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=3>I think Melissa Axelrod's reply is the right one:
chiaroscuro.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=printfooter><SPAN class=343532912-19052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=3>In German it is Hell-Dunkel(Malerei), in French
clair-obscur.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=printfooter><SPAN class=343532912-19052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=3>Representaive painters were: Leonardo da Vinci, Tizian,
Caravaggio, Rembrandt.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=3>Fritz Goerling</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=printfooter></FONT><TT>How does "twilight" (German: Dämmerung)
sound?<BR><BR>Chinedu Uchechukwu<BR><BR>Rudolph C Troike
<rtroike@u.arizona.edu> wrote:<BR><BR>><BR>>This seems to be the
right group to ask about a word for something. A<BR>>friend of mine, a
literary scholar, is writing a paper on Renaissance<BR>>art, and asked me if
I knew a word for the contrast between light and<BR>>dark. I'm sure that
there is something lexicalized in English (more likely<BR>>in German!) for
this concept, but I can't surface it from my internal<BR>>thesaurus. Any
suggestions?<BR>><BR>>
Thanks,<BR>><BR>> Rudy
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