Tenebrism
Tenebrism (from Italian tenebroso , "dark, dark") is a term from painting and describes a strong, particularly contrasting form of chiaroscuro painting that spread from Rome since 1600 and became a style in the second decade of the 17th century European painting became.
Around 1590, Michelangelo da Caravaggio developed this particularly emphasized form of painting in his school, which used hard, directed light to lift the figures out of their surroundings and thus to express the inner tensions. The main colors are brown, gray and olive tones, which predominate in the dark parts of the picture and cancel out the natural colors, while in the light part, the light parts of the painting, the natural colors are included again.
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literature
- Nora and Stefan Koldehoff: Everything you don't know about art. Eichborn-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8218-5804-3 .