Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. European
6. [Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods]
7. Renaissance-Baroque styles

Anotations

Scope note:

Style of painting that flourished in Italy and northern Europe for three decades after the death of Michelangelo Caravaggio (1571-1610). The style was strongly influenced by Caravaggio’s use of everyday, common or lower class scenes and figures; the style employed the lighting effects of tenebrism (figures and objects in a dark background, with some details picked out as strongly lit from a single light source).