Definition of "tenebrism" []

• A style of painting using very pronounced chiaroscuro, with darkness a dominating feature of the image. (noun)

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• "Sometimes this effect is called “tenebrism,” especially in association with 17th Century followers of Caravaggio in Spain and Italy."
• "No, he had to admit, he was not having nightmares about the women he cared for -- and he cared for them all with these two specially mixing in himself as paint, their pleasures and sorrows his tenebrism."
• "Anyhow, there's some Aristotle and Plato I want to read-a textbook on tenebrism I need to get through for my Caravaggio class."