How is chiaroscuro pronounced?
What is the meaning of chiaroscuro?
Chiaroscuro, (from Italian chiaro, “light,” and scuro, “dark”), technique employed in the visual arts to represent light and shadow as they define three-dimensional objects.
How do you use chiaroscuro in a sentence?
Its dazzling chiaroscuro and painterly bravura surpass his earlier performances. Lot and His Daughters betrays the influence of Caravaggio in the heavy chiaroscuro light effects and the deftly modelled figures.
How is Maria pronounced?
Mariah is a variant of the given name Maria. Its use in an English-language context suggests the pronunciation /məˈraɪə/, i.e. the traditional English pronunciation of Latin Maria (as opposed to the Spanish/Italian pronunciation now also commonly encountered in English).