Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each term to its meaning.
- Tenebrism
- Chiaroscuro
- Counter-Reformation
- Decorum
- Near-darkness pierced by a raking beam
- The propriety a sacred subject was owed
- The Catholic response to Protestant challenge
- Modelling form through light and shade
Hints
- Two terms concern lighting, two concern doctrine.
- One names the extreme contrast of dark and light.
Show the answer
- Tenebrism → Near-darkness pierced by a raking beam
- Chiaroscuro → Modelling form through light and shade
- Counter-Reformation → The Catholic response to Protestant challenge
- Decorum → The propriety a sacred subject was owed
Why
Two lighting terms and two doctrines. Caravaggio broke the second pair using the first.
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