This guide on Mannerism provides insights into the movement’s dramatic compositions, elongated forms, and expressive poses. It covers the unique stylistic choices of Mannerist artists, exploring how they broke from Renaissance traditions to create tension and elegance
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3D figures renaissance figures
portray elegent
in unnaturally
descended from
directly
· late
twisted poses characterized distortion of elements such as
painter Raphael -
by
space and proportion
Took classical and idealised forms from
IPAINTOIRIMG
O
renaissance and
IADDIO DIA
used them in unconventional
ways to
heighten tension ,
IP/AIRMMIA CINING
power , emotion and
elegance .
figures painted contorted with
foreshortening
,
deposition
·
Pontormo's unrealistic
·
Space is
Madonna With the long neck ·
arrangement of figure creates swirling
traditional and
mythological subject matter
movement (weightlessness
o
elongated figures in
exaggerated
·
display skills of artist and demands knowledge of viewer
· ·
heightens emotion in the atmosphere
poses Jesus being brought down the cross
·
·
sensuos virgin Mary elongated bodies
·
languid gestures reflect ideals of
· unnatural compression of space
feminine beauty at the time .
· inconsistencies in depiction of space between figures
· balance and
clarity IBIRDINIIND
LATE MANNERISM John theBaptist :
Saint
· contorted (serpentine) figure
MANNERISM Pontormo and
moved from expressive
SPANISH away style of
·
knee and shoulder extended
Rosso opposite
differences begun to fade outwards
·
regional move consideredbeautiful due to
-
artists around
working with nobility ·
pose
Its livliness and spiraling movement
ELL GIRECO ·
depicts saint nearly nude .
The burial of countorgaz similar to : Michelangelo's
heaven and surrounded
-
portrays a
being lifted to
counts soul
by dense population of and political figures
angels Saints Last
Judgementnude
a
,
Characteristics :
· saints and sinners in
·
elongated figures allow contours to be erroded by shadow
·
shows complex movement
· Sharp anddo a ·
referencing mythology
Gunnarguab twisting bodies create
·
creates etherl ea movement
is
regoussubject
mat
of gestures)
-
elongation of hands heightens expressiveness
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