THE 16TH CENTURY ART

During the 16th century, artists abandoned the use of classical details, proportion, and
simple straight lines converting them into an idiosyncratic style called Mannerism .

Mannerism
Marked by strained human postures and crowded compositions, Artists treat space
arbitrarily and create unusual spatial effects. In the use of line, mannerists use elongated
outlines and twisted forms. This manner of representation involving distortion exists in
Michelangelo's frescoes of Last Judgement and Creation of Adam at the Sistine Chapel.
Mannerists included Parmigiana no and Pontormo. Mannerist presentation may assume
various forms such as in subject, use of space, value, line, and gesture. The meanings in
mannerist artworks are often obscures and ambiguous, and contain elements are distorted,
exaggerated, and unrelated to the main subject