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Style of painting associated with Italian painter Caravaggio and his followers that submerges most of forms in shadow but dramatically illuminates the remaining forms.

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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.
  • Sometimes this effect is called “tenebrism,” especially in association with 17th Century followers of Caravaggio in Spain and Italy.
  • 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...
  • 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.
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