Mannerism
- Created by: Kirsty Pym
- Created on: 16-04-14 15:15
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- Mannerism
- c. 1530 - 1590
- A conscious artistic revolt against the High Renaissance
- A deliberate derivation from the work of the Renaissace
- After the death of Raphael that the characteristics fully develop
- Giulio Romano (1492-1546) - Raphael's Chief Assistant
- 'Maniera' = 'Style'
- Courtly Style
- Flourished principally in the Gonzaga court of Mantua and the Mdeici court of Florence
- Grace and effortless accomplishment
- Less devotional, less practical and less ceremonial
- Mannerist Painting
- Concentration on the nude
- Bizarre convoluted poses
- Artificial in appearance
- Self-consciously elegant
- Deliberately obscure subject matter
- Exaggerated muscular development and deliberate distortion of form/figure
- Often swamped by irrelevant figures
- Distorted proportions or scale
- Vivid colour schemes
- Ostentatious
- Mannerist Architecture
- Desire to surprise and shock
- Deliberate flouting of the canons of classical architecture as expressed by Vitruvious
- Reinterpretedby Renaissance architecte such as Alberti and Bramante
- Reaction against the classicism in existence
- An experimentation with classical forms
- Can not rival the beauty or perfection of Bramante's 'Tempietto'
- Mannerist Sculpture
- Equated with a desire to surprise, question and search for meaning
- Change from High Renaissance frontally and simplicity of presentation in sculpture, to a search for multiplicity of views and silhouette
- Elongated forms, exaggerated effects of perspective
- Exaggerated scale in relief sculpture
- Must be walked around, for all its angles of view are important
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