Sentence examples similar to a master of shadows from inspiring English sources

But for me, a hint of an explanation came through his early self-revealing portrait of Tintoretto, who was a master of chiaroscuro — of shadows and light.

Wright is England's answer to Caravaggio, a master of light and shadow and the man behind one of the most celebrated images of science ever created.

Rembrandt, painting in the 17th century, became a master of light and shadow, a technique reflected in his landscapes as well as such portraits as his monumental group portrait now known as Night Watch.

ATHENS (AP) — Evgenios Spatharis, a Greek master of shadow-puppet theater who sought to preserve the art, died on May 10, days after he was injured in a fall.

Cushner, a former Manhattanite who now lives in Florence, Ore., is an acknowledged master of shadow-box framing of fishing flies and prints.

He must be a master of the many movement techniques of shadow puppetry in relation to scene and context, all of which are highly conventional". He also cues the band, a gamelan orchestra of traditional gongs, drums and stringed and xylophone-like instruments, some of which he sometimes plays himself.

The Shih ji (Records of the Grand Historian) described him as "tall and a brilliant speaker", who was "fertile in techniques" and a master of esoteric arts, such as shadow play.

Sternberg was already a master of an ornamental bathos — brought out in shadows and objects serving to screen the action — that suggests a reticent distance from his characters.

He is a master of pictorial composition, texture, architecture, gesture, and mood; his audacious cinematography, with its dazzling backlighting and ominous shadows, conjures the allure of danger.

Powell was a master of urban observation.

• INSIDE TRACK: A master of understatement.