Tenebrism

Tenebrist ( Italian: tenebroso, " dark, dark " ) is a term used in art painting and describes a powerful, especially contrasting form of the chiaroscuro, the spread since 1600 from Rome and in the second decade of the 17th century to a style in the European painting was.

Around 1590 Michelangelo da Caravaggio developed ( 1573-1610 ) in his school to bring this particularly emphasized form of painting that started hard, directional light to differentiate the characters from the environment and thus increase the internal stresses expressed. Wearing colors are brown, gray and olive tones that are prevalent especially in the dark areas and the natural colors cancel while in the highlight part, the light parts of the painting, the natural colors are involved.