Mannerism

Mid to late 1500’s

• Followed the High Renaissance • Idealized works by Michaelangelo and Raphael• Complex poses• Idealized, muscular forms• Complex compositions• Often theatrical• Emotional• Often over stylized/distorted• Incredible technical skill

Regarding Michaelangelo, Eugene Delecroix stated:

• "[A]ll that he has painted is muscles and poses, in which even science, contrary to general opinion, is by no means the dominant factor... He did not know a single one of the feelings of man, not one of his passions. When he was making an arm or a leg, it seems as if he were thinking only of that arm or leg and was not giving the slightest consideration to the way it relates with the action of the figure to which it belongs, much less to the action of the picture as a whole... Therein lies his great merit; he brings a sense of the grand and the terrible into even an isolated limb."

El Greco

• http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/greco/

Correggio

• http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/correggio/

El Greco (born Domenikos Theotokópoulos) (Spanish, born Crete, 1541-1614), Christ Driving the Money Changers

from the Temple, about 1571-1576, oil on canvas

The Repentant

Peter c. 1600

(180 Kb); Oil on

canvas

The opening of the

Fifth Seal of the

Apocalypse

c. 1608-14 (200 Kb); Oil

on

canvas

Adoration of the Shepherds

Madonna with St George1530-32Oil on

canvas,

CORREGGIO

Ganymede1531-32Oil on

canvas,

Resources

• http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/m/mannerism.html

• http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/c/correggi/index.html

• http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/greco/greco.repentant-peter.jpg

• http://www.el-greco-foundation.org/home-2-24-1-0.html

Critique: Rosso Fiorentino Pieta 1530-35, canvas transferred from wood

http://www.cgfaonlineartmuseum.com/fiorentino/p-fiorentino4.htm

Comparative summary

Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574)Annunciation 1564-7 oil on wood

http://www.terminartors.com/artworkprofile/Vasari_Giorgio-Annunciation

http://triviumproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/BOTTICELLI-Sandro-Cestello-Annunciation-1489-90-Tempera-on-panel-150-x-156-cm-Galleria-degli-Uffizi-Florence.jpg

Date: 1489/90 Sandro Botticelli Annunciation

Comparative Summary