The Mannerism era of art was all about elegance, artificial exaggerations, and making artworks as grand and over-the-top as possible. It came after the natural, more harmonious Renaissance period, and ...

The late 16th and early 17th centuries saw major transformations in painting. For decades Mannerism had dominated, but the late 1500s saw artists take new approaches to their craft—approaches that ...

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They called it "the manner". The manner was precious, artificial, convoluted, a bit pretentious, often dry, always unnatural. It was everything that good, healthy, humane art is not supposed to be.

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak delves into the heart of Mannerism, as he explores the development of the art style, examines its characteristics, and questions what it achieved.

Mannerism, naturalism in Paladini’s paintings Paladini, Virgin on Throne with Saints and Knights, 1589, Archbishop’s Palace, Valletta. Tuscan painter Filippo Paladini’s life was deeply marked by an ...

What's in a name? Perhaps without even quite knowing what it is, art lovers may suppose Mannerism to be a style they do not care for, simply because they dislike the connotations of the word.

This course will explore the art of painting and sculpture from Italy in the sixteenth century, during which time the “High Renaissance” style gradually gave way to “Mannerism”, a style that has been ...

William Powhida’s good imitations of bad art, at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles. He’s right: Don’t paint like that. Call it Neo-Mannerism. We all know it. That ever-expanding assembly of ...