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1. Mannerism is the usual English term for a period of art, particularly painting after the High Renaissance, emerging around the year 1520. The term comes from the Italian maniera, or "style," in the sense of painting "in the style" of another painter. |
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Mannerism is the usual English term for a period of art, particularly painting after the High Renaissance, emerging around the year 1520. The term comes from the Italian maniera, or "style," in the sense of painting "in the style" of another painter. |
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2. Mannerism's style emphasized the feeling of the painter, himself. It broke all the conventional rules of painting and laid a foundation upon which formalism? and expressionism? could stand. The advent of formalism? denoted the first time that art had taken itself as the subject?. Expressionism? merely emoted the artist's subjectivity?. This was not the movement of kings and aristocracy?; this belonged to the intellectuals?. Mannerism allowed the artist to be the harbinger? of his own truth (not the pope's). It was a reaction to the upheaval of the Renaissance and the Reformation?. |
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Mannerism's style emphasized the feeling of the painter, himself. It broke all the conventional rules of painting and laid a foundation upon which formalism? and expressionism? could stand. The advent of formalism? denoted the first time that art had taken itself as the subject?. Expressionism? merely emoted the artist's subjectivity?. This was not the movement of kings and aristocracy?; this belonged to the intellectuals?. Mannerism allowed the artist to be the harbinger? of his own truth (not the pope's). It was a reaction to the upheaval of the Renaissance and the Reformation?. |
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