March 6
Mannerism
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Exam
#1 Results
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Number
of students earning grade
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A
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50
- 45 points
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6
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B
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44
- 40 points
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8
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C
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39
- 35 points
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5
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D
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34
- 30 points
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4
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F
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29
- 0 points
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5
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Highest
score - 49
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Lowest
score - 13
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Historical
Context
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1517
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Beginning of Protestant Reformation |
| 1520 | Death of Raphael |
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1527
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Sack of Rome- end of High Renaissance |
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1545 - 1563
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Counter Reformation begins with Council of Trent |
| 1534 | Henry VIII breaks from Catholic Church and establishes Church of England |
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1543
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Copernicus publishes theory in which planets revolve around sun |
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1543
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First scientific study of human anatomy based on dissections published |
| 1550 | Giorgio Vasari publishes The Lives of the Artists |
| 1558 - 1603 | Elizabeth I reigns in England |
| 1564 - 1616 | William Shakespeare |
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1581
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Netherlands declare independence from Spain |
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Counter
Reformation - the movement of self-renewal and reform within the Roman
Catholic church following the Protestand Reformation of the early
16th century and attempting to combat its influence. Its principles
were formulated and adopted at the Council of Trent, 1545 -1563.
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Michelangelo. Last Judgment. 1536-41.
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Michelangelo.
Detail of the Sistine Ceiling. 1508 -12.
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Michelangelo.
Detail of the Last Judgment. 1536 - 41.
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Virtual view of the Last Judgment
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Mannerism
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1520 to
late 16th century
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maniera
= artificial
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Renaissance
vs. Mannerist Styles
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Renaissance
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Mannerism
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Sought
equilibrium
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Sought
instability
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Harmonious
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Dissonant
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Reasonable
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Emotional
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Realistic
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Imaginiative
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Andrea
Mantengna. Detail of the ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi.
1465-74.
Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya, Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Twelfth ed. Vol. 1. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 2005. 2 vols. |
Correggio.
Assumption of the Virgin. 1526 - 1530.
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Characteristics
of Mannerism:
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Extraordinary
technical skill
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Elegant
composition
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Irrational
spatial effects
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Figures
with elongated proportions, exaggerated pose, and enigmatic gestures
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Erotic
imagery
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Pontormo
1494 - 1557
Pontormo. Entombment. 1525-28.
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Michelangelo.
Pietà. c. 1500.
Richard G. Tansey & Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Tenth ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996. |
Pontormo.
Entombment. 1525-28.
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Parmigianino
1503 - 1540
Parmigianino. Madonna with the Long Neck. 1534-40.
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Raphael.
Small Cowper Madonna. c. 1505
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Parmigianino.
Madonna with the Long Neck. 1534-40.
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Titian.
Pesaro Madonna. 1526.
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Parmigianino.
Madonna with the Long Neck. 1534-40.
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Bronzino
1503 - 1572
Bronzino. Allegory with Venus and Cupid. Mid-1540s.
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allegory
= an image that symbolically illustrates an idea, concept, or principle,
often moral or religious
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"The
moral is that folly blinds one to the jealousy and fraud of sensual
love, which time reveals." - Janson
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