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."
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