What is another word for rembrandtesque?

Pronunciation: [ɹɪmbɹɐndtˈɛsk] (IPA)

"Rembrandtesque" is a term used to describe art that is reminiscent of the style of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. However, when talking about art, there are many synonyms used to describe a similar style. Some alternatives to "Rembrandtesque" include Baroque, chiaroscuro, dramatic, intense, moody, and shadowy. These words describe pieces of art with strong contrasts of light and dark, intense emotion, and a sense of drama. Each term offers an additional aspect to describe art that is similar to Rembrandt's style. Whether it's the use of shadow and light or the emotional intensity portrayed, these words offer a range of choices for describing this style of art.

Synonyms for Rembrandtesque:

What are the hypernyms for Rembrandtesque?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    art, painting, realistic art, visual art, dutch golden age painting, figurative art, representational art, baroque art.

Usage examples for Rembrandtesque

The firelight played about the room, illuminating now one thing, now another, making Claude's face and head, sometimes his musical hands look rembrandtesque, powerful, imaginative, even mysterious.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
Great stars hang low in the sombre sky, and the open interiors of Malay huts, aglow with lamp or torchlight, produce rembrandtesque effects, revealing brown inmates cooking or eating their "evening rice."
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
From the mantelshelf the lamp emitted its feeble rays, dimly lighting the lonely chamber, and holding, as with uncertain hand, the shadows which crowded and cowered in the distant corners and recesses of the room, and throwing into rembrandtesque the pallid face of the wakeful mother, and the flushed and fevered face of the slumbering child.
"Lancashire Idylls (1898)"
Marshall Mather

Related words: rembrandt self-portrait, rembrandt's art, rembrandt paintings, rembrandt self-portraits, rembrandt artworks, rembrandt art museum

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