A pupil of Raphael, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissance classicism help define the 16th-century style known as Mannerism.

The High Renaissance art of Michelangelo and Raphael and the late Renaissance stylistic tendencies of Mannerism that were in vogue had a great impact on their work.

Baroque Art is less complex, more realistic and more emotionally affecting than Mannerism.

Unconventional as a draughtsman, his treatment of human form is often exaggerated and eccentric ( hence his linkage, in the art historical literature, with European Mannerism ), whilst his ornamental style — profuse, eclectic, and akin to the self-consciously " German " strain of contemporary limewood sculptors — is equally distinctive.

In the last half of the 14th century, Paleologan saints were painted in an exaggerated manner, very slim and in contorted positions, that is, in a style known as the Paleologan Mannerism, of which Ochrid's Annunciation is a superb example.

Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520.

The second period of Mannerism is commonly differentiated from the earlier, so-called " anti-classical " phase.

Other parts of Northern Europe did not have the advantage of such intense contact with Italian artists, but the Mannerist style made its presence felt through prints and illustrated books, the purchases of Italian works by rulers, and others, artists ' travels to Italy, and the example of individual Italian artists working in the North is called Northern Mannerism.

Seventeenth-century Artisan Mannerism is one exception applied to architecture that relies on pattern books rather than direct precedents in Continental Europe.

His Trattato dell ' arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura ( Milan, 1584 ) is in part a guide to contemporary concepts of decorum, which the Renaissance inherited in part from Antiquity but Mannerism elaborated upon.

The rhyolitic tuff portal of the " church house " at Colditz Castle, Saxony, designed by Andreas Walther II ( 1584 ), is a clear example of the exuberance of " Antwerp Mannerism ".

In English literature, Mannerism is commonly identified with the qualities of the " Metaphysical " poets of whom the most famous is John Donne.

The rhyolitic tuff portal of the " church house " at Colditz Castle, Free State of Saxony | Saxony, designed by Andreas Walther II ( 1584 ), is a clear example of the exuberance of " Antwerp Mannerism "

Giovan Battista Marino's masterpiece, Adone, published in 1623, is a long, sensual poem, which elaborates the myth of Adonis, and represents the transition in Italian literature from Mannerism to the Baroque.

The most famous of these is the Villa d ' Este, a World Heritage Site, whose construction was started in 1549 by Pirro Ligorio for Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este and which was richly decorated with an ambitious program of frescoes by famous painters of late Roman Mannerism, such Livio Agresti ( a member of the " Forlì painting school ") or the Zuccari brothers.

Historically however it is an example of Mannerism.

In some ways Eclecticism is reminiscent of Mannerism in that the term was used pejoratively for much of the period of its currency, although, unlike Mannerism, Eclecticism never amounted to a movement or constituted a specific style: it is characterized precisely by the fact that it was not a particular style.

Pevsner considered the façades to be Mannerist: " The fashionable term Mannerism can here be used legitimately ; for Holden indeed froze up and invalidated current classical motifs, which is what Mannerist architects did in the Cinquecento.

The work of El Greco is a particularly clear example of Mannerism in painting during the late 16th, early 17th centuries.

The elongated proportions and exaggerated poses in the late works of Michelangelo, Andrea del Sarto and Correggio prefigure so-called Mannerism, as the style of the later Renaissance is referred to in art history.

English Mannerism: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 1546, a rare English Mannerist portrait by a Flemish immigrant.

Extended conceits in English are part of the poetic idiom of Mannerism, during the later sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

The English period began far later than the Italian, which is usually considered to begin with Dante, Petrarch and Giotto in the early 14th century, and was moving into Mannerism and the Baroque by the 1550s or earlier.

In particular, they objected to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts, believing that his broad technique was a sloppy and formulaic form of academic Mannerism.

Extending the general rubric of Renaissance culture, the visual arts of the High Renaissance were marked by a renewed emphasis upon the classical tradition, the expansion of networks of patronage, and a gradual attenuation of figural forms into the style later termed Mannerism.

The art of the period from Francis I through Henry IV is often heavily inspired by late Italian pictorial and sculptural developments commonly referred to as Mannerism ( associated with Michelangelo and Parmigianino, among others ), characterized by figures which are elongated and graceful and a reliance on visual rhetoric, including the elaborate use of allegory and mythology.

In the 16th century, from the examples engraved for Sebastiano Serlio's treatise on architecture, caryatids became a fixture in the decorative vocabulary of Northern Mannerism expressed by the Fontainebleau School and the engravers of designs in Antwerp.

Strapwork is a frequent element of grotesques -- arabesque or candelabra figures filled with fantastical creatures, garlands and other elements — which were a frequent decorative motif in 16th century Mannerism, and revived in the 19th century and which may appear on walls — painted, in frescos, carved in wood, or molded in plaster or stucco -- or in graphic work.

He was soon seen as the ideal model by those disliking the excesses of Mannerism: the opinion ... was generally held in the middle of the sixteenth century that Raphael was the ideal balanced painter, universal in his talent, satisfying all the absolute standards, and obeying all the rules which were supposed to govern the arts, whereas Michelangelo was the eccentric genius, more brilliant than any other artists in his particular field, the drawing of the male nude, but unbalanced and lacking in certain qualities, such as grace and restraint, essential to the great artist.

For many, the rise to power in Florence of the austere monk Girolamo Savonarola in 1494-1498 marks the end of the city's flourishing ; for others, the triumphant return of the Medici marks the beginning of the late phase in the arts called Mannerism.

Rosso Fiorentino, who had been a fellow-pupil of Pontormo in the studio of Andrea del Sarto, brought Florentine mannerism to Fontainebleau in 1530, where he became one of the founders of the French 16th century Mannerism called the " School of Fontainebleau ".

*# St. Bartholomew's parish church with Manneristic, magnificent, architectural tombstone of Stanisław Przyjemski on the north wall of the main nave seems to be the most characteristic example of local Mannerism.

By the end of the 16th century, artists such as Karel van Mander and Hendrik Goltzius collected in Haarlem in a brief but intense phase of Northern Mannerism that also spread to Flanders.

As the main panels themselves became more dramatic, during Mannerism, predellas were no longer painted, and they are rare by the middle of the 16th century.

The figures are elegant and show the influence of the techniques of the Italian Mannerism of Michelangelo, Raphael and especially Parmigianino.

His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light that create spiritual emotion and are credited with reinvigorating Italian art, especially fresco art, which was subsumed with formalistic Mannerism.

Lit by windows in bays that are articulated by pilasters corresponding to the beams of the ceiling, with a tall constricted vestibule ( executed to Michelangelo's design in 1559 by Bartolomeo Ammanati ) that is filled with a stair that flows down from the library itself, the Library is often instanced as a prototype of Mannerism in architecture.

A fine representative of Mannerism in France, Goujon's figures are elongated, sensual and fluid ; his drapery work reveals knowledge of Greek sculpture, though certainly not at first hand.

It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe.

His portrait style, for example, remained distinct from the more sensuous technique of Titian, and from the Mannerism of William Scrots, Holbein's successor as King's Painter.

Though trained in the culture of Mannerism then popular in Parma, he soon developed his own preference for a more radiant palette.