Mannerism

Mannerism
A prevalent style of art during the later half of the sixteenth century, characterized by a self-aware perspective with dominant, often disturbing, themes or moods.

Mannerism. A highly formalized and elegant form of art which came into being in 16th-century Italy. With Mannerism, methodical use of the principles of variety and complexity developed into an extrovert display of artistic virtuosity.

Mannerism
A movement in art, at the end or just after the Renaissance, where artists attempted to bring emotion and intensity to their work. To do this they broke the rules of Realism, carefully strived for in the Renaissance.

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No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures.

Mannerism-Late Renaissance Art

While Michelangelo, Titian, and Raphael were working in a robust figurative style, other contemporaries moved in a more lyric and decorative direction, ...

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The decorative classical architecture of mid-17th-century England is sometimes called Artisan Mannerism, because master masons and other craftsmen were its chief exponents.

Religious origin: Baroque was the dominant style of European art between Mannerism and Rococo.

The period is divided into two styles that of the Early Renaissance up until about 1`530, and that of Mannerism, from 1530 until it in turn gave way to the Baroque in about 1610.

Italianate architecture in Ontario is an eclectic style derived from the palazzos of the Italian Renaissance and the subsequent European styles of Mannerism and Baroque.

This tendency, which coalesced in the style Mannerism, is exemplified by the sophisticated Palazzo del Te (1526-1534) at Mantua. The architect Andrea Palladio worked in and around Vicenza and Venice.

See also: Architecture, Renaissance, Gothic, Roman, Classical