mannerism/mannered - Mannerism was a style of art in 16th century Italy, characterized by somewhat distorted (usually human) forms and a high emotional key. Practitioners included the artist Pontormo.
It is the maze of patterns and folds which draws the eye to the erotic force-field of garments which enshroud the bodies; it is the fashionable display of costly fabrics and mannered coiffures.
Bodies?
His forms became more mannered and polished; his colors became more intense, and his rendering of space took on a vaguely Cubist orientation, ...
Despite his new found wealth and fame the stone-mason could not be transformed into a well mannered academician.
The French impressionists dealt candidly with the working and middle classes, whereas American impressionists favored portrayals of well-dressed, well-mannered high society.
Indeed, he deprecated the work of both Eliot and Pound as "mannered." His poetry is a complex exploration of the relationship between imagination and reality.
The foreshortenings of the landscape passage are imaginative and mannered, showing roads, lakes, and mountains.
and tortured, though before a superb example of Jacques Caffieri, such as the famous commode in the Wallace Collection, it is impossible not to admire the art with which genius can treat even the defects and weaknesses of a peculiarly mannered ...
She was at first tempted to embark on a courtesan's life, but instead she took a room in a convent and, in this semi-retreat, lived the cultured and well-mannered life of a précieuse, zealous of her reputation.
 See also: Painting, Portrait, Renaissance, Movement, Composition
  
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