TENEBRISM


Meaning of TENEBRISM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈte-nə-ˌbri-zəm ]

noun

Usage: often capitalized

Etymology: Latin tenebrae darkness

Date: 1954

: 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

• ten·e·brist -brist noun or adjective , often capitalized

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.