MANNERISM

OR LATE
RENAISSANCE
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 WHAT IS MANNERISM and LATE
RENAISSANCE?
 The word mannerism is derived from the Italian
maniera, meaning “style” or “manner.”
 Mannerism was a European art style that
appeared in the later years of the Italian High
Renaissance around 1520, lasting until about 1580
in Italy, when the Baroque style began to replace
it. Northern Mannerism continued into the early
17th century.
 Mannerism covered a variety of approaches influenced
by, and reacting to, the harmonious ideals associated
with the artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and
Michelangelo. In comparison with High Renaissance art
that emphasizes proportion, balance, and ideal beauty,
Mannerism exaggerates such qualities, often resulting in
compositions that are asymmetrical or unnaturally
elegant. The style was known for its intellectual
superiority, as well as its artificial qualities. It favoured
compositional tension and instability rather than the
balance and clarity of earlier Renaissance paintings.
 Mannerist painting was more artificial than natural as
compared with the Renaissance painting. This could be
attributed to such characteristics as the unnatural
display of emotions, unproportionate human figures,
unnatural poses, uncommon effects of scale, use of
lighting or perspective, and bright loud colors.
 The end of Renaissance was caused largely by the
beginning of the Protestant Reformation that set off
violent conflicts throughout Europe and eliminated
much of the funding for art, Recent developments of
the time, such as printing, the discovery of the New
World, and Vasco da Gama’s navigation of the Cape
of Good Hope, also contributed to its end.
MANNERISM PAINTING VS. RENAISSANCE PAINTING
RENAISSANCE

MANNERISM
MANNERIST PAINTERS
MICHELANGELO
 Michelangelo, a finest mannerist, in full
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni (1475-1564)
 Michelangelo was considered the
greatest living artist in his lifetime, and
ever since then he has been held to be
one of the greatest artists of all time.
 A number of his work in painting,
sculpture, and architechture rank
among the most famous in existence.
The Sistine Chapel are probably the
best known of his works.
“The Sistine Chapel”(Michelangelo)
CORREGGIO
 Also known as, Antonio Allegri da
Correggio (1489-1534)
 He was the foremost ainter of the
Pama school of the High Italian
Renaissance, who was responsible for
some of the most vigorous and
sensuous works of the 16th century. In
his use of dynamic composition
illusionistic perspective and dramatic
foreshortening.
 Correggio prefigured the Barouqe art
of the 17th century and the Rococo art
of the 18th century. He is considered a
master of chiaroscuro.
“Adoration of the Child”(Correggio)
PONTORMO  Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo
Pontormo or simply Pontormo (1494-
1556), was an Italian Mannerist painter
and portraitist from the Florentine
Schooll.
 His work represents a profound stylistic
shift from the calm perspectival
regularity that characterized the art of
the Florentine Renaissance. He is
famous for his use of twining poses,
coupled with ambiguous perspective;
his figures often seem to float in an
uncertain environment, unhampered
by the forces of gravity.
“Deposition of the Cross”(Pontormo)
FIORENTINO
 Giovanni Battista Jacopo (1494-1540) Born
in Florence with the red hair that gave him
his nickname, Rosso first trained in the
studio of Andrea del Sarto alongside his
contemporary, Pontormo. In late 1523,
Rosso moved to Rome, where he was
exposed to the works of Michelangelo,
Raphael, and other Renaissance artists,
resulting in the realignment of his artistic
style.
 His masterpiece is generally considered to
be the Deposition or Descent from the
Cross altarpiece in the Pinacoteca
Comunale di Volterra (initially painted for
the Duomo).
“Descent from the Cross”(Fiorentino
PARMIGIANINO
 Parmigianino (1503-40) “The Little One
from Parma”, was an Italian Mannerist
painter and printmaker active in
Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his
native city of Parma.
 His work is characterized by a “refined
sensuality” and often elongation of
forms and includes Vision of Saint
Jerome and the iconic if somewhat
untypical Madonna with the Long
Neck, and he remains best known
artist of the first generation whose
whole careers fall into the Mannerist
period.
“Vision of Saint Jerome”(Parmigianino)
BRONZINO  Agnolo Bronzino, (1503-72) was a Florentine
Mannerist painter. His sobriquet, Bronzino, in all
probability refers to his relatively dark skin.
 He lived all his life in Florence, and from his late
30s was kept busy as the court painter of
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
He was mainly a portraitist but also painted
many religious subjects, and a few allegorical
subjects, which include what is probably his
best known work, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time,
c. 1544–45, now in London. Many portraits of
the Medicis exist in several versions with varying
degrees of participation by Bronzino himself, as
Cosimo was a pioneer of the copied portrait
sent as a diplomatic gift.
“Allegorical Portrait of Dante” (Bronzino)
ROCOCO PERIOD
 Also referred to as Late Baroque, the term Rococo
is a hybrid word combining both rocaille (French
for “shell”) and barocco, Italian for Baroque, the
artistic style before the Rococo period.
 Rococo art broadly featured shell-haped curves
and wavelike motifs, particularly in its extravagant
furniture design and interior décor. It was also
known as the age of artificially as depicted in
artworks showing unreal or artificial subjects.
 The artistic period known as the Rococo
movement appeared in France and scattered all
around the world in the late 17th and early18th
century. It started in 1699 when the French king
Louis XIV requested more youthful art to be
created under his reign.
 Artists of the period emphasized more the
attention to detail ornamentation, and use of
bright colors. Rococo furniture and architechture
could be described by the sudden shift from the
plain religious symmetrical designs of the
Barouque.
 Many artists were known during the Rococo
period, but the most renowned were Francois
Boucher, Jeane Antoine Watteau, and Jean
Honore Fragonard.
Salon de la princesse, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris
Rococo-style wall elevation in the bedroom of the Prince de
Rohan at the Hôtel de Soubise by Germain Boffrand, 1735–36.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, “Apollo Pursuing Daphne,” c. 1755-60
Jean Antoine Watteau, “The Feast of Love,” 1718-19.
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