MannerismMannerism is a period of European painting, sculpture, architecture and decorative arts lasting from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520 until the arrival of the Baroque around 1600. Stylistically, it identifies a variety of individual approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the harmonious ideals associated with Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and early Michelangelo. Mannerism is notable for its artificial, as opposed to naturalistic, and its intellectual qualities

More important than his carefully recreated observation of nature was the artist’s mental conception and its elaboration. This intellectual bias was, in part, a natural consequence of the artist’s new status in society. No longer regarded as craftsmen, painters and sculptors took their place with scholars, poets, and humanists in a climate that fostered an appreciation for elegance, complexity, and even precocity.

el Greco

The Trinity

1577-79, oil on canvas, Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz1586-88Oil on canvas, 480 x 360 cmSanto Tomé, Toledo

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

Agony in the Garden

Saint Martin and the Beggar

Tintoretto

The Last Supper

The Crucifixion

Baroque

• In the arts, Baroque is a period as well as the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. The style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe. In music, the Baroque applies to the final period of dominance of imitative counterpoint, where different voices and instruments echo each other but at different pitches, sometimes inverting the echo, and even reversing thematic material.[

Caravaggio

Judith Slaying Holofernes

c. 1598Oil on canvas, 145 x 195 cm

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

The Calling of Saint Matthew

1599-1600Oil on canvas, 322 x 340 cm

Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter

1600Oil on canvas

Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

The Conversion of St. Paul

1600Oil on cypress wood, 237 x 189 cmOdescalchi Balbi Collection, Rome

The Conversion on the Way to Damascus

1600Oil on canvas, 230 x 175 cm

Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

c. 1605Oil on canvas, 116 x 173 cm

Piasecka-Johnson Collection, Princeton

The Sacrifice of Isaac

The Crowning with Thorns

Gentileschi

Judith Slaying Holofernes

Susanna and the Elders (1610)

Rembrandt

The Blinding of Samson

RembrandtThe Blinding of Samson, 1636,

Stadelscleskunstinstut, Frankfurt

Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolas Tulp

Rembrandt, 1632Oil on canvas, 169,5 x 216,5 cm

Mauritshuis, The Hague

Descent from the Cross

Rembrandt1633, oil on wood

Pinakothek at Munich

Rubens

The Garden of Love

Rubens,1630oil on canvas, Museo del Prado, Madrid

Reception of Marie de Medici in Marsaille

Rubens, 1622-24oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris

1612-14Oil on panel, 421 x 311 cm (centre panel)

Descent from the Cross Rubens

Bernini

1623-24Marble, height 170 cmGalleria Borghese, Rome

David by Bernini

Ecstasy of St. Theresa, 1647-52

Bernini

Vermeer

5.53 Johannes Vermeer Interior with a Woman Reading a Letter c. 1662-4 Oil on canvas. 18 1/3” x 15 1/3” Dutch Baroque

Johannes VermeerA Maidservant Pouring Milkc. 1660. Oil on canvas1’57/8” x. 1’ 4 1/8” Dutch Baroque

Woman Holding a Balance

1664, National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C.

Rococo

•Rocaille, coquille•Interior design for aristocracy•Gilded molding, ornamentation•Fun, frivolous•Silvers, pastels•intimacy•Bach, Viladi•Age of Enlightenment (18th century) •salonnières

Jean Honoré Fragonard The Swing 1767 Rococo

William Hogarth Marriage à la mode II 1745 Oil on canvasEnglish Rococo