Question

What innovative and extreme lighting technique did Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio use in his paintings?

A. contrapposto

B. tenebrism

C. atmospheric perspective

D. foreshortening

When I looked this up it says D but I'm pretty sure its B because that's the dramatic contrast between dark and light. Please help

Answer 1

Yep, your guess is right! Tenebrism, is the correct answer!
"Tenebrism deals with the extreme contrast of light and dark, along with chiaroscuro, the two effects were what Caravaggio used to make his paintings seem so dramatic."
 
Or maybe I'm wrong xD. Hopefully I helped!

Answer 2

The innovative and extreme lighting technique did Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio use in his paintings is foreshortening. Thus the option (D) is correct.

Who was Caravaggio ?

Caravaggio was a renowned painter yet controversial Italian painter of the late 1500s and early 1600s. He was orphaned at the age of 11 years and lived with the painter Milan.

Foreshortening is a way of painting or drawing that creates an optical illusion that the work of art is 3 dimensional when it's actually 2 dimensional.

Caravaggio use the innovative and extreme lighting technique in his painting to give the 3 dimensional effects and that technique is known as foreshortening.

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