Joseph Wright, styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution".
Self-portrait c. 1780, oil on canvas, in the Yale Center for British Art
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, by Joseph Wright, 1768, National Gallery, London
Self-portrait as a young man, 1765–1768, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Cave at evening, (aka Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno) by Joseph Wright, 1774, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
In art, chiaroscuro is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures. Similar effects in cinema, and black and white and low-key photography, are also called chiaroscuro.
Giovanni Baglione. Sacred and Profane Love (1602–1603), showing dramatic compositional chiaroscuro
Christ at Rest, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1519, a chiaroscuro drawing using pen, ink, and brush, washes, white heightening, on ochre prepared paper
Detail of La Fornarina (1518–19) by Raphael, shows delicate modelling chiaroscuro in the body of the model, for example in the shoulder, breast, and arm on the right
Chiaroscuro woodcut of the Virgin and Child by Bartolommeo Coriolano, created between 1630 and 1655 (digitally restored)
