Tenebrism
Tenebrism, from
Baroque
The artist Caravaggio is generally credited with the invention of the style, although this technique was used by earlier artists such as Albrecht Dürer in his several self portraits, Tintoretto in his dramatic religious paintings such as The Miracle of St Mark, El Greco who painted three versions of a composition with a boy, a man, and a monkey grouped in darkness around a single flame, and lesser known painters such as Adam Elsheimer, who painted night-scenes with a restricted lighted areas. The term is usually applied to artists from the seventeenth century onward.
Among the best known tenebrist artists are Italian, Dutch and Spanish followers of Caravaggio. These include the Italian Baroque follower of Caravaggio,
Tenebrism is sometimes applied to other seventeenth-century painters in what has been called the "candlelight tradition". These include
Later development
Later, similar compositions were painted by Joseph Wright of Derby and other artists of the Romantic Movement, but the term is rarely used to characterize their work in general.[4]
See also
References
- ISBN 978-1-111-77145-4.
- ISBN 0-534-64114-8.
- ^ Notes on Adam de Coster at Sotheby's
- ISBN 978-84-9948-991-9.
External links
- Baroque (Cartage.org)
- Art Lexicon
- Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Ribera and Tenebrism