Mannerism

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Mannerism was a 16th-century European art and architectural style characterized by artificiality, elongated proportions, and complex, often tension-filled compositions that reacted against the balanced harmony of the High Renaissance.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf architectural style
art movement
cultural movement
countryOfOrigin Italy
developedIn Florence
Mantua
Rome
central Italy
endTime late 16th century
etymology from Italian "maniera" meaning "style" or "manner"
field architecture
decorative arts
painting
sculpture
followedBy Baroque
follows High Renaissance
hasCharacteristic acid or unusual color
ambiguous space
artifice over naturalism
artificiality
complex compositions
crowded compositions
decorative excess in architecture
distorted perspective
elongated human figures
elongated proportions
emotional tension
exaggerated poses
instability of composition
intellectual complexity
refined elegance
serpentinata pose
stylization
tension-filled compositions
hasNotablePractitioner Agnolo Bronzino
Benvenuto Cellini
El Greco
Federico Zuccari
Giambologna
Giorgio Vasari
Giulio Romano
Jacopo da Pontormo
Veronese
surface form: Paolo Veronese

Parmigianino
Rosso Fiorentino
Tintoretto
hasNotableWork Allegory with Venus and Cupid
Escorial paintings of El Greco
Laurentian Library
Madonna with the Long Neck
Palazzo Te
surface form: Palazzo del Te

The Deposition from the Cross (Pontormo)
hasSubstyle Court Mannerism
Northern Mannerism
influenced Baroque
surface form: Baroque art

Northern Mannerism
late Renaissance art
reactionAgainst classical balance of High Renaissance
naturalism of High Renaissance
startTime circa 1520
timePeriod 16th century
usedIn court portraiture
mythological painting
palace decoration
religious painting

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School of Fontainebleau influencedBy Mannerism
this entity surface form: Italian Mannerism
Perino del Vaga movement Mannerism
Perino del Vaga artisticSchoolOrTradition Mannerism
this entity surface form: Roman Mannerism
The Greek movement Mannerism
View of Toledo movement Mannerism
View of Toledo artisticStyle Mannerism
Laocoön movement Mannerism
subject surface form: Laocoön (El Greco)
Taddeo Zuccari movement Mannerism
Giuseppe Salviati movement Mannerism
Rosso Fiorentino movement Mannerism
De re aedificatoria influenced Mannerism
this entity surface form: Mannerist architecture
Palazzo Farnese (Caprarola) architecturalStyle Mannerism
this entity surface form: Mannerist architecture
Jean Goujon movement Mannerism
Livio Agresti movement Mannerism
Bartholomeus Spranger movement Mannerism
Bartholomeus Spranger influencedBy Mannerism
this entity surface form: Italian Mannerism
Alonso de Covarrubias style Mannerism
Federico Zuccari movement Mannerism
Western art includesStylePeriod Mannerism
Convent of Las Descalzas Reales, Madrid style Mannerism
this entity surface form: Mannerist architecture
French classicism follows Mannerism
Italian Baroque relatedTo Mannerism
Cornelis van Haarlem style Mannerism
Coronation of the Virgin by El Greco influencedBy Mannerism
this entity surface form: Italian Mannerism
Giovanni Baglione movement Mannerism
Giovanni Baglione influencedBy Mannerism
this entity surface form: Mannerist painters
Antonio da Correggio movement Mannerism
Dutch Baroque art follows Mannerism
Anthonie van Montfoort movement Mannerism
Zhovkva hasArchitecturalStyle Mannerism
Rondanini Pietà by Michelangelo movement Mannerism
subject surface form: Rondanini Pietà
Hans Vredeman de Vries movement Mannerism
Cappella Olgiati in Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome hasStylePeriod Mannerism
subject surface form: Cappella Olgiati
Vignola movement Mannerism
Mausoleum of Emperor Ferdinand II hasArchitecturalInfluenceFrom Mannerism
this entity surface form: Italian Mannerism