Northern Mannerism

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Northern Mannerism was a late Renaissance artistic style that developed in Northern Europe, characterized by elongated figures, complex compositions, and highly refined, often extravagant decorative detail.

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Surface form Occurrences
Italian Mannerism 1
Mannerist artists 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mannerism
Renaissance art style
art movement
countryOrRegion England
France
Holy Roman Empire
Netherlands
Northern Europe
Scandinavia
endTime early 17th century
field architecture
decorative arts
painting
printmaking
sculpture
follows High Renaissance art
Mannerism
surface form: Italian Mannerism
hasCharacteristic artificial poses
complex compositions
crowded pictorial space
elegant courtly style
elongated figures
erudite allegory
extravagant ornament
refined decorative detail
stylized anatomy
influenced Dutch Golden Age
surface form: Dutch Golden Age painting

Flemish Baroque painting
early Baroque art in Northern Europe
influencedBy High Renaissance
Mannerism
surface form: Italian Mannerism

Michelangelo
Parmigianino
Raphael
movementType court art
elite, erudite style
notableArtist Bartholomeus Spranger
Cornelis van Haarlem
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Hans von Aachen
Hendrick Goltzius
Jean Cousin the Younger
Joachim Wtewael
Primaticcio
Rosso Fiorentino
notableWork Allegorical series and emblem books
Fontainebleau School decorations
Grotesque ornament prints
Prague Castle
surface form: Rudolf II’s court artworks in Prague

Stucco and fresco cycles at the Palace of Fontainebleau
opposedBy Counter-Reformation naturalism
early Baroque classicism
partOf Northern Renaissance
patron French royal court
German princely courts
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
startTime circa 1550
usesMotif allegorical figures
elaborate strapwork
fantastical hybrid creatures
grotesque ornament
mythological subjects

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Renaissance hasSubPeriod Northern Mannerism
Mannerism hasSubstyle Northern Mannerism
Mannerism influenced Northern Mannerism
Michelangelo influenced Northern Mannerism
this entity surface form: Mannerist artists
Northern Renaissance influenced Northern Mannerism
Jacob van Swanenburgh influencedBy Northern Mannerism
this entity surface form: Italian Mannerism
Jacob van Swanenburgh influencedBy Northern Mannerism