Chiaroscuro

Quality:

Chiaroscuro - use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition in art. Article “Chiaroscuro” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Chiaroscuro”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1115 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5539 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #286 in November 2020
• Global: #3952 in July 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #14643 in February 2022
• Global: #9119 in March 2015

There are 42 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Chiaroscuro		63.1295
2	Norwegian (no) Chiaroscuro		56.9349
3	Korean (ko) 키아로스쿠로		53.2348
4	Czech (cs) Šerosvit		49.5833
5	Turkish (tr) Işık gölge		37.2234
6	French (fr) Clair-obscur		36.9846
7	Hungarian (hu) Chiaroscuro		33.2372
8	Japanese (ja) キアロスクーロ		32.6726
9	German (de) Chiaroscuro		27.8447
10	Tamil (ta) சியாரோஸ்கியூரோ		25.562

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chiaroscuro		7 018 180
2	Spanish (es) Claroscuro		2 329 265
3	French (fr) Clair-obscur		1 126 853
4	German (de) Chiaroscuro		509 174
5	Portuguese (pt) Chiaroscuro		284 409
6	Russian (ru) Светотень (искусство)		266 095
7	Italian (it) Chiaroscuro		255 896
8	Japanese (ja) キアロスクーロ		244 179
9	Dutch (nl) Clair-obscur (schilderkunst)		243 213
10	Polish (pl) Chiaroscuro		205 191

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chiaroscuro		25 117
2	French (fr) Clair-obscur		3 373
3	German (de) Chiaroscuro		2 070
4	Spanish (es) Claroscuro		1 498
5	Japanese (ja) キアロスクーロ		1 129
6	Russian (ru) Светотень (искусство)		802
7	Dutch (nl) Clair-obscur (schilderkunst)		634
8	Polish (pl) Chiaroscuro		563
9	Portuguese (pt) Chiaroscuro		544
10	Chinese (zh) 明暗对照法		393

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chiaroscuro		303
2	French (fr) Clair-obscur		107
3	German (de) Chiaroscuro		93
4	Spanish (es) Claroscuro		75
5	Dutch (nl) Clair-obscur (schilderkunst)		45
6	Italian (it) Chiaroscuro		44
7	Russian (ru) Светотень (искусство)		42
8	Norwegian (no) Chiaroscuro		27
9	Czech (cs) Šerosvit		26
10	Japanese (ja) キアロスクーロ		23

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Romanian (ro) Clarobscur		3
2	Arabic (ar) الجلاء والقتمة		1
3	French (fr) Clair-obscur		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Светлосянка		0
5	Catalan (ca) Clarobscur		0
6	Czech (cs) Šerosvit		0
7	Danish (da) Chiaroscuro		0
8	German (de) Chiaroscuro		0
9	Greek (el) Κιαροσκούρο		0
10	English (en) Chiaroscuro		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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