Valentin de Boulogne
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Valentin de Boulogne, sometimes referred to as Le Valentin, was a French painter in the tenebrist style.
Soldiers Playing Cards and Dice (The Cheats), c. 1618–1620, by Valentin de Boulogne.
Fortune-teller with Soldiers
St. John and Jesus at the Last Supper (detail), 1625–1626
St John the Baptist in the Desert
Tenebrism
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Tenebrism, from Italian tenebroso, also occasionally called dramatic illumination, is a style of painting using especially pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark,
Valentin de Boulogne
…Valentin de Boulogne (before 3 January 1591 – 19 August 1632), sometimes referred to as Le Valentin, was a French painter in the tenebrist style. Valentin was born in Coulommiers, France, where he was baptised in the parish of Saint-Denys on 3 January 1591, making 1590 his likely year of…
John the Baptist (John in the Wilderness), by Caravaggio, 1604, in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Martyrdom of St Andrew by Jusepe de Ribera, 1628 (Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest))
A Man Singing by Candlelight, by Adam de Coster, 1625–1635
Orazio Gentileschi Young Woman Playing a Violin