maniera:•intellectually intricate subjects•highly skilled techniques•art concerned with beauty for its own sakeextraordinary 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.

Mannerism

Jacopo da PontormoHalberdier1530soil on canvas, 92 x 72 cmJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Jacopo da PontormoEntombment (The Deposition)1525-1528oil on woodCappella Capponi, Santa Felicità, Florence

Jacopo da PontormoEntombment(The Deposition)1525-1528oil on wood

ParmigianinoSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirrorc. 1524oil on wood

ParmigianinoCupidc. 1523-1524oil on wood

ParmigianinoMadonna with the Long Neck1535oil on wood panel

BronzinoVenus, Cupid and Time (Allegory of Lust)1540-45oil on wood panel

BronzinoPortrait of a Young Man1540-1545oil on wood panel