This new internal environment offers an architectural and sequential chiaroscuro to the external strip-mall type reality and prepares the visitor for practice of inward meditation and contemplation .
It was dusk : the contrasts of the colors were fading into a vibrant chiaroscuro ; the lunar fields and woods were now just barely visible contours on the taut surface of the shining globe .
The paintings by karl bryullov are remarkable for the blending of academic classicism with romanticism , the novelty of subject matter , dramatic effect of the plastic and chiaroscuro , complexity of composition and brilliant virtuosity of the brush .