Rembrandtismn.
/ˈrɛmbrantɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈrɛmˌbrænˌtɪz(ə)m/ Imitation of the style of Rembrandt.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > 17th century-mid 19th century > [noun] > style of specific artist
Rembrandtism1849
Turnerism1851
Rubenist1911
Poussinist1920
1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. iii. 77 Rembrandtism is a noble manner in architecture, though a false one in painting.
1935 Burlington Mag. Sept. 139/2 This serious and penetrating study..makes us express the wish that the author would enlarge his researches into Rembrandtism in the eighteenth century in Germany.
2005 Washington Post (Nexis) 30 Jan. (Sunday Arts section) n01 A picture such as that Epinal ‘Virgin of Sorrows’ is almost entirely frantic brushwork, nearly at the expense of legibility. It is Rembrandtism taken almost to the point of parody.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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