1. Areana Castellanos 5th Period
Mannerism ( )
Areana Castellanos 5th Period

2. What is mannerism?
The term mannerism refers to certain tendencies in the art of the Late Renaissance. The word means “excessive or affected adherence to a distinctive matter”.
It emerged in Rome and Florence between 1510 and 1520, during the later years of the High Renaissance. Mannerism acts as a bridge between the idealized style of Renaissance art and the dramatic theatricality of the Baroque.
Mannerist paintings tend to be more artificial and less naturalistic than Renaissance painting. This exaggerated idiom is “typically associated with attributes such as emotionalism, elongated human figures, strained poses, unusual effects of scale, lighting or perspective, vivid often garish colours”.

3. Artist: Pontormo
Name of artwork: Descent from the cross
Year:
Medium: oil on wood
Where: Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicita, Florence
He used mannerism by depicting the exaggeration of melancholy. The painting shows much emotion and strained poses. It shows the people carrying Christ’s limp body. It as a very controversial painting due to the “swoon of the virgin”. It was created to illustrate for church patrons none more so than the many scenes of Christ’s life and particularly his death and resurrection.

4. Artist: Roso Fiorentino
Name of artwork: Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro
Year:
Medium: oil on canvas
Where: Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Just like many paintings in this time period, the strained poses and elongated human bodies were common. Fiorentino's painting comes from the Old Testament story of Moses and his legendary decency in defending the daughters of Jethro, a priest and shepherd in the land of Midian.

5. Artist: Parmigianino
Name of artwork: Madonna with the Long Neck
Year: 1535
Medium: oil on wood
Where: Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Mannerism is shown with the expression of emotions, elongated bodies and strained poses and the vivid colors that are used. He did widen his circle of influence due to his involvement in printmaking.

6. Artist: Michelangelo
Name of artwork: crouching boy
Year:
Medium: sculpted in marble
Where: Italy
The sculpture shows a boy looking down on his foot very concentrated, which gives a sense of sorrow and pain in Michelangelo had gone through. Still, the work remains enigmatic. Uses strained poses and emotionalism.

7. Artist: Bronzino
Name of artwork: Portrait of a young man
Year: 1550
Medium: oil on wood
Where: Florence, Italy
The man was a part of Bronzino’s close circle and probably is holding a book of poetry. Bronzino delineated a sophisticated visual identity for his sitter. Uses emotionalism and poses as well as lighting and perspective.

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