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This guide on Mannerism provides insights into the movement’s dramatic compositions, elongated forms, and expressive poses. It covers the unique stylistic choices of Mannerist artists, exploring how they broke from Renaissance traditions to create tension and elegance

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MANNTDISM ORIGINS
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·
early
16th
century
characteristics present
transition
in Italian art Crenaissance
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boldness and abrupt spatial

MANNERISM IN ROME
·
Foreshortening common practice
used
to
give power to
key figures in painting
EARLY MANNERISM
-




share common features with artists and expressive
florentine mannerism :
·

Imaginate
,
·
having individual signature restless movement brilliant
·
characterised by ,


with more classical forms
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Complex compositions
andclashingcolour seases
INTRODUCTION
·


sharmonious colour and irrational
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3D figures renaissance figures
portray elegent
in unnaturally
descended from
directly
· late
twisted poses characterized distortion of elements such as
painter Raphael -
by
space and proportion
Took classical and idealised forms from
IPAINTOIRIMG
O
renaissance and


IADDIO DIA
used them in unconventional
ways to
heighten tension ,

IP/AIRMMIA CINING
power , emotion and
elegance .
figures painted contorted with
foreshortening
,



deposition
·

Pontormo's unrealistic
·
Space is

Madonna With the long neck ·
arrangement of figure creates swirling
traditional and
mythological subject matter
movement (weightlessness
o




elongated figures in
exaggerated
·
display skills of artist and demands knowledge of viewer
· ·

heightens emotion in the atmosphere
poses Jesus being brought down the cross
·



·
sensuos virgin Mary elongated bodies
·
languid gestures reflect ideals of
· unnatural compression of space
feminine beauty at the time .
· inconsistencies in depiction of space between figures
· balance and
clarity IBIRDINIIND
LATE MANNERISM John theBaptist :



Saint
· contorted (serpentine) figure
MANNERISM Pontormo and
moved from expressive
SPANISH away style of
·


knee and shoulder extended
Rosso opposite
differences begun to fade outwards
·
regional move consideredbeautiful due to
-

artists around
working with nobility ·
pose
Its livliness and spiraling movement
ELL GIRECO ·
depicts saint nearly nude .

The burial of countorgaz similar to : Michelangelo's
heaven and surrounded
-
portrays a
being lifted to
counts soul

by dense population of and political figures
angels Saints Last
Judgementnude
a
,

Characteristics :
· saints and sinners in
·
elongated figures allow contours to be erroded by shadow
·
shows complex movement
· Sharp anddo a ·
referencing mythology

Gunnarguab twisting bodies create
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creates etherl ea movement
is
regoussubject
mat


of gestures)
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elongation of hands heightens expressiveness

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