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tenebrism Italian, tenebroso (murky), also called dramatic illumination, is a style of painting using very pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image. impasto technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas gilding process of applying gold leaf or gold paint contrappasto Italian term that means counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs sfumato one of the four canonical painting modes of the Renaissance (the other three being Cangiante, Chiaroscuro, and Unione). Term comes from Italian, "to tone down" or "to evaporate like smoke Chiaroscuro an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something Cangiante one of the four canonical painting modes of the Renaissance (the other three being Unione, Chiaroscuro, and Sfumato). The word itself derives from the Italian term ("to change") Unione characterized by its sfumato quality, while still maintaining vibrant color