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- Mannerism, (from maniera, “manner,” or “style”), artistic style that predominated in Italy from the end of the High Renaissance in the 1520s to the beginnings of the Baroque style around 1590. The Mannerist style originated in Florence and Rome and spread to northern Italy and, ultimately, to much of central and northern Europe.
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Apr 29, 2024 · Mannerism originated as a reaction to the harmonious classicism and the idealized naturalism of High Renaissance art as practiced by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael in the first two decades of the 16th century.
Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.
Today, the English term “mannerism” is used to broadly designate 16th-century art throughout Europe (and even in places like the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries) that is conspicuously artificial, often emotionally provocative, and designed to impress.
May 5, 2021 · Mannerism Art depicts the human figure in new, quite literally (and figuratively) twisted shapes. This hints at one of the key influences on Mannerists, which is the Hellenistic period sculpture and statue, Laocoön and His Sons (c. 200 BCE).
Mannerism is commonly defined as a “stylish style” in art, emphasising artificiality, artistic expression, to deliberately develop elegant and stylised creative works, over literal depictions of the figure. Vasari wrote about “maniera” in relation to the works of Michelangelo and Raphael.
Jan 26, 2022 · Mannerism is a European art style that arose in the late years of the High Renaissance in Italy about 1530 and flourished until the end of the 16th century when it was mostly supplanted by the Baroque style.
The term is most helpful when used to identify one style of art in central Italy between the High Renaissance and the baroque, c. 1520 – 1600. It has been used more loosely, and less effectively, both in art history and other disciplines, such as cultural history, music, and literature.