It.- "dark manner"] - Style of painting adopted principally by the baroque painter Caravaggio, which exaggerated the usual chiascuro effects by highlighting the principal subject(s) and immersing the background in deep shadow.
A term signifying the prevalent use of dark areas in a painting. A tenebrist style, such as Caravaggism, uses strong chiaroscuro and artificially illuminated arcs to create a dramatic contrast of light and dark.
A style of painting that exaggerates or emphasizes the effects of chiaroscuro. Large amounts of dark value are placed close to smaller areas of highly contrasting lights (and vice versa) in order to concentrate attention on important features.
An Italian word meaning dark and gloomy, used to describe art with a high contrast between dark and light. Rembrandt's work is an example of tenebrism.
meaning dark and gloomy, a style of painting in which light is rendered in great contrast to dark to create a dramatic effect. Often, a work appears to have a single source of illumination to highlight the primary subject.
Tenebrism, from the Italian tenebroso ("murky"), (also called dramatic illumination) is a style of painting using violent contrasts of light and dark. A heightened form of chiaroscuro, it creates the look of figures emerging from the dark. The term is less used by Art historians in recent decades, and lacks a clear definition; it is most often applied to Spanish painters.