Mannerism

Go to Rome just to go see the Pontormo show.

One of the leading originating artists of what we generally refer to as Mannerism, which is sort of an in-between moment from Renaissance to Baroque art.

And if that

sounds really boring to you, which it did sound to me, I almost didn't go.

The figure begins to be, you start kind of like playing with the figure.

As they did during Mannerism, where they start using a fish-eyes lens, or they start elongating features, or they start to play with positioning.

So they're doing these different things with the figures.

Even when you look at Manet and the way he starts painting the figure of Gauguin, you know, where they start talking about the primitive world.

And the fact that he saw the work that he did as something very spiritual and emotional was such an interesting – to me when I was younger.

And I've never directly referenced his work like I do, you know, the Impressionists or the Renaissance or Mannerist painters.

So I saw this as an opportunity to directly reference a number of his works that I've experienced and And, you know, it's just sort of a bit tongue-in-cheek as

well.

With that in mind, Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists.

He was a master of what was called Mannerism.

Okay? At that time, to use shadow and to show depth, they would use different co- shades of the color blue instead of black and different things like that.

And his artwork would come alive in his paintings.

And so we will see that be dominant early on.

And when it comes to Rome, we know that Rome was already very, very much a part of the Italian Renaissance art movement and then from there, the Mannerist Renaissance art movement.

But with all of the religious change that happens in Europe and the focus of the popes, especially after Pope Paul III bringing back a certain sort of Catholic unity or an attempt to bring back Catholic unity to Europe, we're gonna see the art embrace those ideas and therefore the Italian Baroque art is very, very Catholic in nature.

Now, moving on to Spain.