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- noun A style of
painting using very pronouncedchiaroscuro , withdarkness a dominating feature of the image.
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Examples
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Sometimes this effect is called “tenebrism,” especially in association with 17th Century followers of Caravaggio in Spain and Italy.
Chiaroscuro James Gurney 2008
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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.
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Anyhow, there's some Aristotle and Plato I want to read-a textbook on tenebrism I need to get through for my Caravaggio class.
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Caravaggio with his tenebrism (dramatic shading, where 3D games begin to take off with better shading and lighting) really began to bring things to life.
doggdot.us 2008
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Caravaggio with his tenebrism (dramatic shading, where 3D games begin to take off with better shading and lighting) really began to bring things to life.
doggdot.us 2008
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love it. very reminiscent of caravaggio's tenebrism effect
Jehad Nga The Year in Pictures 2008
kawy commented on the word tenebrism
(also called dramatic illumination) is a style of painting using very pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image. -Wikipedia
August 24, 2010