tenebrism

noun

ten·e·brism ˈte-nə-ˌbri-zəm

often capitalized

: a style of painting especially associated with the Italian painter Caravaggio and his followers in which most of the figures are engulfed in shadow but some are dramatically illuminated by a beam of light usually from an identifiable source

tenebrist

ˈte-nə-brist

noun or adjective often capitalized

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Combining tenebrism with real-life models, heightened naturalism and tight, tumultuous spaces, Caravaggio brought pictorial storytelling to an unprecedented pitch of intensity. —