Definition of Tenebrists

1. tenebrist [n] - See also: tenebrist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenebrists

tendu
tendus
tene
tenebrae
tenebrific
tenebrificous
tenebrio
tenebrionid
tenebrionids
tenebrios
tenebrious
tenebrism
tenebrisms
tenebrist
tenebristic
tenebrists (current term)
tenebrose
tenebrosity
tenebrous
tenebrously
tenebrousness
tenebrousnesses
tenectomy
teneliximab
tenement
tenement district
tenement house
tenemental
tenementary
tenementlike

Literary usage of Tenebrists

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Classic Point of View: Six Lectures on Painting Delivered on the Scammon by Kenyon Cox (1911)
"... and so, for the most part, were their followers and imitators. Even much later, painters like Caravaggio and Ribera—the tenebrists, ..."

2. The Classic Point of View: Six Lectures on Painting. Delivered on the by Kenyon Cox (1912)
"Even much later, painters like Caravaggio and Ribera — the tenebrists, as they were called — only darkened the shadows to blackness, exaggerating and ..."

3. The Classic Point of View: Six Lectures on Painting Delivered on the Scammon by Kenyon Cox (1912)
"Even much later, painters like Caravaggio and Ribera—the tenebrists, as they were called—only darkened the shadows to blackness, exaggerating and ..."

4. Tracts Relating to the Reformation by Jean Calvin, Théodore de Bèze, Henry Beveridge (1849)
"... but tenebrists; and again, their representing us as saying that the bread is not the body, but symbolizes, ..."

5. North Italian Painters of the Renaissance by Bernard Berenson (1907)
"... Realists and tenebrists, who succeeded the classic masters, was due most probably not merely to a lack of energy, but to their energy being misdirected, ..."

6. The Classic Point of View: Six Lectures on Painting Delivered on the Scammon by Kenyon Cox (1911)
"... and so, for the most part, were their followers and imitators. Even much later, painters like Caravaggio and Ribera—the tenebrists, ..."

7. The Classic Point of View: Six Lectures on Painting. Delivered on the by Kenyon Cox (1912)
"Even much later, painters like Caravaggio and Ribera — the tenebrists, as they were called — only darkened the shadows to blackness, exaggerating and ..."

8. The Classic Point of View: Six Lectures on Painting Delivered on the Scammon by Kenyon Cox (1912)
"Even much later, painters like Caravaggio and Ribera—the tenebrists, as they were called—only darkened the shadows to blackness, exaggerating and ..."

9. Tracts Relating to the Reformation by Jean Calvin, Théodore de Bèze, Henry Beveridge (1849)
"... but tenebrists; and again, their representing us as saying that the bread is not the body, but symbolizes, ..."

10. North Italian Painters of the Renaissance by Bernard Berenson (1907)
"... Realists and tenebrists, who succeeded the classic masters, was due most probably not merely to a lack of energy, but to their energy being misdirected, ..."

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