tenebrism 1

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a style of painting especially associated with the Italian painter Caravaggio and his followers in which most of the figures are engulfed in shadow but some are dramatically illuminated by a beam of light usually from an identifiable source.

  • 1.Tenebrism is most often applied to seventeenth-century Spanish painters.
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