Mannerism Mannerism is a period of European painting, sculpture, architecture and decorative arts lasting from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520 until the arrival of the Baroque around 1600. Stylistically, it identifies a variety of individual approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the harmonious ideals associated with Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and early Michelangelo. Mannerism is notable for its artificial, as opposed to naturalistic, and its intellectual qualities More important than his carefully recreated observation of nature was the artist’s mental conception and its elaboration. This intellectual bias was, in part, a natural consequence of the artist’s new status in society. No longer regarded as craftsmen, painters and sculptors took their place with scholars, poets, and humanists in a climate that fostered an appreciation for elegance, complexity, and even precocity.

el Greco

The Trinity 1577-79, oil on canvas, Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz The Burial of the Count of Orgaz 1586-88 Oil on canvas, 480 x 360 cm Santo Tomé, Toledo

Agony in the Garden

Saint Martin and the Beggar

Tintoretto

The Last Supper

The Crucifixion

Baroque In the arts, Baroque is a period as well as the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. The style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe. In music, the Baroque applies to the final period of dominance of imitative counterpoint, where different voices and instruments echo each other but at different pitches, sometimes inverting the echo, and even reversing thematic material.[

Caravaggio

Judith Slaying Holofernes c. 1598 Oil on canvas, 145 x 195 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

The Calling of Saint Matthew 1599-1600 Oil on canvas, 322 x 340 cm Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter 1600 Oil on canvas Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

The Conversion of St. Paul 1600 Oil on cypress wood, 237 x 189 cm Odescalchi Balbi Collection, Rome

The Conversion on the Way to Damascus 1600 Oil on canvas, 230 x 175 cm Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

The Sacrifice of Isaac c. 1605 Oil on canvas, 116 x 173 cm Piasecka-Johnson Collection, Princeton

The Crowning with Thorns

Gentileschi

Judith Slaying Holofernes

Susanna and the Elders (1610)

Rembrandt

The Blinding of Samson, 1636, Stadelscleskunstinstut, Frankfurt Rembrandt The Blinding of Samson, 1636, Stadelscleskunstinstut, Frankfurt

Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolas Tulp Rembrandt, 1632 Oil on canvas, 169,5 x 216,5 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague

Descent from the Cross Rembrandt 1633, oil on wood Pinakothek at Munich

Rubens

The Garden of Love Rubens,1630 oil on canvas, Museo del Prado, Madrid

Reception of Marie de Medici in Marsaille Rubens, 1622-24 oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Descent from the Cross Rubens 1612-14 Oil on panel, 421 x 311 cm (centre panel)

Bernini

David by Bernini 1623-24 Marble, height 170 cm Galleria Borghese, Rome

Ecstasy of St. Theresa, 1647-52 Bernini

Vermeer

5.53 Johannes Vermeer Interior with a Woman Reading a Letter c. 1662-4 Oil on canvas. 18 1/3” x 15 1/3” Dutch Baroque

Johannes Vermeer A Maidservant Pouring Milk c. 1660. Oil on canvas 1’57/8” x. 1’ 4 1/8” Dutch Baroque

Woman Holding a Balance 1664, National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C.

Rococo Rocaille, coquille Interior design for aristocracy Gilded molding, ornamentation Fun, frivolous Silvers, pastels intimacy Bach, Viladi Age of Enlightenment (18th century) salonnières

Jean Honoré Fragonard The Swing 1767 Rococo

William Hogarth Marriage à la mode II 1745 Oil on canvas English Rococo