The postures and gestures in Grand Manner portraits were often derived from ancient Roman sculpture or Italian Renaissance paintings.
Grand Manner
The elevated and ambitious style of history painting advocated by leading 18th-c. art theorists ...
Grand manner: The depiction of the human figure in a noble. heroic or explicitly symbolic way, often within an historical scene. Popular in 17thC France.
Abandoning the "grand manner" of Louis XIV's court painters, Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) preferred to draw his inspiration from the great Dutch and Flemish artists of the 17th century and from the etchings of Jacques Cailot (1592-1635).
grand manner - painting which emphasizes and exalts a larger-than-life figure through sumptuous dress, bold posture and/or the simplification and reduction of background elements * ...
It was during this period (1775-81), that he abandoned the grand manner of his early work, with its Baroque use of lighting and composition for a stark, highly finished and morally didactic style.
The Rococo manner was a reaction against the"grand manner" of art identified with the baroque formality and rigidity of court life.
The idea of the Grand Manner took shape in 17th-century Italy, notably in the writings of Bellori.
The building, with which Von Stuck, the 'prince of artists', erected as a monument to himself in the grand manner of the Renaissance, is acclaimed as a supreme achievement of its kind in architecture.
The public dimension of sculpture also lent itself to the celebration of Victorian values and historical figures, which were likewise executed in the grand manner of earlier times.
 See also: Portrait, Painting, Academy, Royal Academy, Sculpture
  
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