Mannerism

John K. G. Shearman

Penguin, 1967 - Art - 216 pages

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User Review  - AC - Goodreads

This is a fabulous book for all the obvious reasons - viz., because it is a good book. The author is smart, and in discussing his topic, he opens a vista, not just on European art of the 15th-17th ...

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User Review  - Monica - Goodreads

A course I took with Prof. Graham Smith at the University of Michigan utterly changed my life. His course and Shearman's book opened the world of 16th C painting, sculpture and architecture to me and ...

Contents

• Editorial Foreword: 9
• The Arrival of Mannerism in the Visual Arts: 49
• Characteristic Forms: 81

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mannerism; Pelican books; Style and civilization; A Pelican original; Pelican book, A808; Pelican Books: Style and civilisation
• Author: John K. G. Shearman
• Edition: reprint, illustrated
• Publisher: Penguin, 1967
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Apr 9, 2008
• Length: 216 pages
• Subjects: Art; Art / History / General; Art / History / Renaissance; History; Mannerism (Art)