Today's talk is on Mannerism which began around the 1520s in Florence and Rome and then spread throughout Italy and beyond until the 1590s when it began to be replaced by the Baroque.
It is known for mannered and exaggerated style with unnatural colours and artificial elongated limbs, small heads, and contrived poses.
It followed the High Renaissance typified by the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael who were seen to have reach the pinnacle of the accurate representation of the human form and the pinnacle of the representation of beauty. Artists such as Jacopo da Pontormo broke away from this with an expressive, arty, self-conscious and sometimes bizarre style.
I have organised this talk as a step-by-step journey from mild to extreme examples of Mannerism ending with this artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
My PDF notes are here https://www.shafe.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11-01-The-Extremes-of-Mannerism.pdf
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