Mannerism
maniera:
•intellectually intricate subjects
•highly skilled techniques
•art concerned with beauty for its own sake
extraordinary virtuosity (the artist is obviously extremely
skilled at his craft)
Characteristics:
•sophisticated, elegant compositions
•fearless manipulations or distortions of accepted formal
conventions
•irrational spatial effects
•figures that have elongated proportions
•exaggerated poses enigmatic gestures and expressions
Mannerism began in Rome and Florence.
Grace was elevated and became the ideal—not rationality
or naturalism.
Jacopo da Pontormo
Halberdier
1530s
oil on canvas, 92 x 72 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los
Angeles
Jacopo da Pontormo
Entombment (The Deposition)
1525-1528
oil on wood
Cappella Capponi, Santa Felicità,
Florence
Jacopo da Pontormo
Entombment
(The Deposition)
1525-1528
oil on wood
Parmigianino
Self-Portrait in a
Convex Mirror
c. 1524
oil on wood
Parmigianino
Cupid
c. 1523-1524
oil on wood
Parmigianino
Madonna with the Long Neck
1535
oil on wood panel
Bronzino
Venus, Cupid and Time
(Allegory of Lust)
1540-45
oil on wood panel
Bronzino
Portrait of a Young Man
1540-1545
oil on wood panel