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tenebrism

The Oxford Dictionary of Art | 2004 | 208 words | Copyright

tenebrism. Term describing predominantly dark tonality in a painting. It derives from the Italian tenebroso (obscure) and is applied mainly to the 17th-century followers of Caravaggio in Italy and elsewhere.

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