Mannerism
& other Late Renaissance
1520s-1600
• Intellectual Art
• The ideal world vs. the real world
Correggio
Assumption of the Virgin
Fresco, 1526-30,
Diameter of dome – 36’, Parma
Cathedral, Italy
Pontormo, Entombment,
Oil and tempera on wood panel,
1525-28, 10’3” x 6’4”, altarpiece,
Church of Santa Felicita, Florence
Parmigianino
Madonna with the Long Neck
Oil on wood panel
7'1" X 4'4"
1534–40, Uffizi, Florence
Bronzino
Portrait of a Young Man
Oil on wood panel
37 ½ X 29½"
c 1540
The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York.
Bronzino
Allegory with Venus and
Cupid
Oil on panel
57 ½ X 46"
1540s
National Gallery, London
Tintoretto, The Last Supper, oil on canvas, 12’ x 18’8”,
1592, Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Veronese, Feast in the House of Levi (originally titled “The Last Supper”),
oil on canvas, 18’3” x 42’, 1573,
from refectory of the Dominican Monastery of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Sofonisba Anguissola
Self-Portrait
Oil on parchment on cardboard
2 ½ X 3¼"
c. 1552
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Benvenuto
Cellini,
Saltcellar of King
Francis I of
France,
10” x 13”,
1540
Giovanni da Bologna
Left:
Abduction of the Sabine Women
Marble, 1583, Florence
Right:
Venus Urania
Gilt bonze, 15”, 1573
Romano, Palazzo del Te, Mantua, c. 1530
Giacomo della Porta
Façade of the Church of Il
Gesu,
Rome, 1c. 1575
Palladio
Church of San Giorgio
Maggiore, Venice, c. 1580s
Palladio, Villa Rotunda, Vicenza, c. 1570
Plan of the Villa Rotunda