MannerismManierismo was the extreme consciousness of elegant style for its own sake, a passion which unites the cold narcissistic nudes of Bronzino, the elaborate chiselling of Benvenuto Cellini's saltcellar, and the water-games in a duke's garden. |
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Page 15
... Mannerism does not exist . - Obviously , my editors and I believe that Mannerism does exist , with the same kind of reality ( and no more ) as the other style periods that are commonly acknowledged . In my view the contradictions in ...
... Mannerism does not exist . - Obviously , my editors and I believe that Mannerism does exist , with the same kind of reality ( and no more ) as the other style periods that are commonly acknowledged . In my view the contradictions in ...
Page 177
... Mannerism , but how Mannerist was antiquity , or how much did it seem to be so ? In the sixteenth century the science of archaeology was born , and artists ( including Raphael , Pirro Ligorio , Palladio and Dupérac ) did much of the ...
... Mannerism , but how Mannerist was antiquity , or how much did it seem to be so ? In the sixteenth century the science of archaeology was born , and artists ( including Raphael , Pirro Ligorio , Palladio and Dupérac ) did much of the ...
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... Mannerism left a permanent mark on the history of art . Some of its most typical art - forms - the staircase , for instance , or the pastorale - remained just as conspicuous through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . And the ...
... Mannerism left a permanent mark on the history of art . Some of its most typical art - forms - the staircase , for instance , or the pastorale - remained just as conspicuous through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . And the ...
Contents
Editorial Foreword | 9 |
The Arrival of Mannerism in the Visual Arts | 49 |
Characteristic Forms | 81 |
Copyright | |
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