FOR centuries “Mannerism” has been a dirty word in the art historian’s book, meaning “in the manner of” —or something akin to copycat. Renaissance enthusiasts use it to describe the ...

A study on the impact of the High Renaissance in the sixteenth century, the subsequent development of early Mannerism in central Italy and the formation of the Proto-Baroque syle in Venice and ...

This exhibition is curated by Susan Wegner, associate professor of art history at Bowdoin College, and students from Art History 2240: “Mannerism.” ...

...Mannerism. The Great Escape: The Sack of Rome in 1527 forced many Italian artists to flee abroad, taking the revolutionary art movement with them. (3 of 3) Also in ...

Paladini, Virgin on Throne with Saints and Knights, 1589, Archbishop’s Palace, Valletta. Tuscan painter Filippo Paladini’s life was deeply marked by an unpleasant incident, that occur­r­ed ...

He’s right: Don’t paint like that. Call it Neo-Mannerism. We all know it. That ever-expanding assembly of anemically boring, totally safe artistic clichés squeezing the life out of the art ...