Andrea Del Sarto - Renaissance and Mannerist Paintings - Mannerism

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After the expulsion of the Medici, once again, in , he worked for the republican government of Florence. His Sacrifice of Isaac , intended as a political present to Francis I, was painted in this period. After the siege of Florence by imperial and papal forces, he succumbed to a new wave of plague and died in his house.

John the Baptist in the Chiostro dello Scalzo in Florence. Begun about , the work was not completed until , and almost all of it was painted by his own hand, so that it reads like an artistic autobiography covering the greater part of his career. His portraits of his wife, Lucrezia c. A badly damaged pair of circular portraits of Andrea and Lucrezia at the Art Institute of Chicago appear to be signed completed about In his early works such as the Marriage of St.

Catherine , the search for the expression of animation and emotion led to an ecstatic and nonidealistic style that proved immensely attractive to a younger generation of painters. In the s his style, as a result of the influence of Michelangelo or of artistic events in Rome, became perceptibly more ideal and more polished and approximates what may properly be called a grand manner in the last of the Scalzo frescoes, the Birth of the Baptist His real quality is also vividly revealed in his drawings.

Among his pupils and followers were most of the significant Florentine painters of the first half of the 16th century—Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo, Francesco Salviati , and Giorgio Vasari , for example—and it is largely through his example that the tradition of Florentine art was transmitted through to the end of the Renaissance and was able to embrace the stylistic innovations made about by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

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His eccentric personality, solitary and slow working habits and capricious attitude towards his patrons are described by Vasari; his own diary, which covers the years —6, further reveals a character with neurotic and secretive aspects. Pontormo enjoyed the protection of the Medici family throughout his career but, unlike Agnolo Bronzino and Giorgio Vasari, did not become court painter.

His subjective portrait style did not lend itself to the state portrait. He produced few mythological works and after devoted himself almost exclusively to religious subjects. His drawings, mainly figure studies in red and black chalk, are among the highest expressions of the great Florentine tradition of draughtsmanship; close to survive, forming arguably the most important body of drawings by a Mannerist painter. His highly personal style was much influenced by Michelangelo, though he also drew on northern art, primarily the prints of Albrecht Durer.

Pontormo Visitation fresco St. Pontormo Deposition Santa Felicita, Florence. In it, Michelangelo's Medici tombs inspire the anti-architectural "architectural" features at the top, the papery pierced frame, the satyr nudes at the base. As a mere frame it is extravagant: Another literary figure from the period is Gian Paolo Lomazzo , who produced two works—one practical and one metaphysical—that helped define the Mannerist artist's self-conscious relation to his art. His Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura Milan, is in part a guide to contemporary concepts of decorum , which the Renaissance inherited in part from Antiquity but Mannerism elaborated upon.

Lomazzo's systematic codification of aesthetics, which typifies the more formalized and academic approaches typical of the later 16th century, emphasized a consonance between the functions of interiors and the kinds of painted and sculpted decors that would be suitable. Iconography, often convoluted and abstruse, is a more prominent element in the Mannerist styles.

His less practical and more metaphysical Idea del tempio della pittura The ideal temple of painting , Milan, offers a description along the lines of the "four temperaments" theory of human nature and personality, defining the role of individuality in judgment and artistic invention.

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Jacopo da Pontormo 's Joseph in Egypt features what would in the Renaissance have been considered incongruous colors and an incoherent handling of time and space. Rosso Fiorentino , who had been a fellow pupil of Pontormo in the studio of Andrea del Sarto , in brought Florentine mannerism to Fontainebleau , where he became one of the founders of French 16th-century Mannerism, popularly known as the " School of Fontainebleau ". The examples of a rich and hectic decorative style at Fontainebleau further disseminated the Italian style through the medium of engravings , to Antwerp and from there throughout Northern Europe from London to Poland.

Mannerist design was extended to luxury goods like silver and carved furniture. A sense of tense, controlled emotion expressed in elaborate symbolism and allegory , and an ideal of female beauty characterized by elongated proportions are features of this style. Mannerist portraits by Agnolo Bronzino are distinguished by a serene elegance and meticulous attention to detail.

As a result, Bronzino's sitters have been said to project an aloofness and marked emotional distance from the viewer. There is also a virtuosic concentration on capturing the precise pattern and sheen of rich textiles. Alessandro Allori 's — Susanna and the Elders below is distinguished by latent eroticism and consciously brilliant still life detail, in a crowded, contorted composition.

Tintoretto 's Last Supper below focuses on light and motion, bringing the image to dramatic life. Unlike more traditional views of the Last Supper, Tintoretto depicts Heaven opening up into the room, and the angels looking on in awe, in line with the old Catholic maxim that "If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy the Eucharist. El Greco attempted to express religious emotion with exaggerated traits.

After the realistic depiction of the human form and the mastery of perspective achieved in high Renaissance Classicism, some artists started to deliberately distort proportions in disjointed, irrational space for emotional and artistic effect.

El Greco still is a deeply original artist. El Greco has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual that he belongs to no conventional school. Benvenuto Cellini created the Cellini Salt Cellar of gold and enamel in featuring Poseidon and Amphitrite water and earth placed in uncomfortable positions and with elongated proportions. It is considered a masterpiece of Mannerist sculpture.

Joachim Wtewael — continued to paint in a Northern Mannerist style until the end of his life, ignoring the arrival of the Baroque, and making him perhaps the last significant Mannerist artist still to be working. His subjects included large scenes with still life in the manner of Pieter Aertsen , and mythological scenes, many small cabinet paintings beautifully executed on copper, and most featuring nudity.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo also spelled Arcimboldi is known for his portraits contrived from a still life composition. Juno in a niche, engraving by Jacopo Caraglio , probably from a drawing of by Rosso Fiorentino. Jacopo Tintoretto , Last Supper.

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo , Vertumnus the god of seasons , , Skokloster Castle. Angelo Bronzino , Portrait of Bia de'Medici.

Alessandro Allori , Susanna and the elders. Mannerist architecture was characterized by visual trickery and unexpected elements that challenged the renaissance norms.

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The Renaissance ideal of harmony gave way to freer and more imaginative rhythms. The best known architect associated with the Mannerist style, and a pioneer at the Laurentian Library , was Michelangelo — Prior to the 20th century, the term Mannerism had negative connotations, but it is now used to describe the historical period in more general non-judgmental terms. An example of mannerist architecture is the Villa Farnese at Caprarola.

The proliferation of engravers during the 16th century spread Mannerist styles more quickly than any previous styles. Dense with ornament of "Roman" detailing, the display doorway at Colditz Castle exemplifies this northern style, characteristically applied as an isolated "set piece" against unpretentious vernacular walling. From the late s onwards, many buildings in Valletta , the new capital city of Malta , were designed by the architect Girolamo Cassar in the Mannerist style.

Such buildings include St. John's Co-Cathedral , the Grandmaster's Palace and the seven original auberges. Many of Cassar's buildings were modified over the years, especially in the Baroque period. However, a few buildings, such as Auberge d'Aragon and the exterior of St. John's Co-Cathedral, still retain most of Cassar's original Mannerist design.

Michelangelo, vestibule of Laurentian Library. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta. In English literature, Mannerism is commonly identified with the qualities of the "Metaphysical" poets of whom the most famous is John Donne. He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice [40] speculations of philosophy when he should engage their hearts and entertain them with the softnesses of love.

The rich musical possibilities in the poetry of the late 16th and early 17th centuries provided an attractive basis for the madrigal , which quickly rose to prominence as the pre-eminent musical form in Italian musical culture, as discussed by Tim Carter:. The word Mannerism has also been used to describe the style of highly florid and contrapuntally complex polyphonic music made in France in the late 14th century. The Early Commedia dell'Arte — The Mannerist Context by Paul Castagno discusses Mannerism's effect on the contemporary professional theatre.

See Part II of the above book for a full discussion of Mannerist characteristics in the commedia dell'arte.

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The study is largely iconographic, presenting a pictorial evidence that many of the artists who painted or printed commedia images were in fact, coming from the workshops of the day, heavily ensconced in the maniera tradition. The preciosity in Jacques Callot 's minute engravings seem to belie a much larger scale of action. Callot's Balli di Sfessania literally, dance of the buttocks celebrates the commedia's blatant eroticism, with protruding phalli, spears posed with the anticipation of a comic ream, and grossly exaggerated masks that mix the bestial with human.

The eroticism of the innamorate lovers including the baring of breasts, or excessive veiling, was quite in vogue in the paintings and engravings from the second school at Fontainebleau, particularly those that detect a Franco-Flemish influence. Castagno demonstrates iconographic linkages between genre painting and the figures of the commedia dell'arte that demonstrate how this theatrical form was embedded within the cultural traditions of the late cinquecento.

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