Mannerism& other Late Renaissance

1520s-1600•Intellectual Art•The ideal world vs. the real world

CorreggioAssumption of the Virgin Fresco, 1526-30, Diameter of dome – 36’, Parma Cathedral, Italy

Pontormo, Entombment,Oil and tempera on wood panel, 1525-28, 10’3” x 6’4”, altarpiece, Church of Santa Felicita, Florence

ParmigianinoMadonna with the Long Neck Oil on wood panel7'1" X 4'4" 1534–40, Uffizi, Florence

BronzinoPortrait of a Young Man Oil on wood panel37 ½ X 29½" c 1540The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

BronzinoAllegory with Venus and Cupid Oil on panel57 ½ X 46"1540sNational Gallery, London

Tintoretto, The Last Supper, oil on canvas, 12’ x 18’8”, 1592, Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Veronese, Feast in the House of Levi (originally titled “The Last Supper”), oil on canvas, 18’3” x 42’, 1573, from refectory of the Dominican Monastery of Santi Giovanni e Paolo

Sofonisba AnguissolaSelf-Portrait Oil on parchment on cardboard2 ½ X 3¼" c. 1552Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Benvenuto Cellini, Saltcellar of King Francis I of France, 10” x 13”, 1540

Giovanni da Bologna

Left:Abduction of the Sabine WomenMarble, 1583, Florence

Right:Venus UraniaGilt bonze, 15”, 1573

Romano, Palazzo del Te, Mantua, c. 1530

Giacomo della PortaFaçade of the Church of Il Gesu,Rome, 1c. 1575

PalladioChurch of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, c. 1580s

Palladio, Villa Rotunda, Vicenza, c. 1570

Plan of the Villa Rotunda