![]() Mannerism was practiced mostly in Florence and Rome and spread to northern Italy and in a later phase throughout the central and northern Europe. ![]() The definite continuum of Mannerism in art is still under debate by the scholars however, the term definitely frames the art production from the end of the High Renaissance in the 1520s until the beginnings of the Baroque around 1590. Color and light were fiercely dramatic and over-expressed, the pictorial space became flattened and the human figure was practically distorted. Similar to painting and sculpture, Mannerism in music and literature was expressed in an elaborated and rather sophisticated manner. ![]() Unlike High Renaissance's fascination with proportion and balance, Mannerism plunged into exaggeration so the works of art created in this style were often asymmetrical and very artificial. The term was used to describe the 16th-century artists and their Mannerism art who were successors of major Renaissance masters such as Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci, and was proposed by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Lanzi at the end of the 18th century. The Late Renaissance period around 1520 is better known as Mannerism, which was indeed a specific shift of the previously formed tendencies mostly in aesthetic terms. ![]() To be more precise, this socio-political phenomenon brought further development of both social and natural sciences, technology, art and architecture, and various other civilization betterment. The Renaissance appeared after the Middle Ages and it introduced an entirely new worldview largely inspired by the Antique. ![]()
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