The late renaissance and mannerism

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AbOUt thíS ITALY High Renaissance virtually ended with the Rnnlc death of Raphael in 1520. Renaissance forms lingered on in Venice, but elsewhere the nervous and refined sensibility summed up in the word Mannerism predominated in a world torn by the Reformation. Linda Murray describes the important part which Michelangelo, by now the dominant figure in Italian art, played in the transition from the simplicity of early High Renaissance art to the more sophisticated style of the later sixteenth century. His Last Judgement, the last Piéta groups, and the designs for St Peter's all fali in this period. The account of the growth of Mannerism includes Giulip Romano, Pontormo, Bronzino, Parmigianino, and the sculpture of Benvenuto Cellini; the architects Peruzzi and Vignola in Romé, and Palladio, Sansoyino and Sanmichele in \renice; and Veronesé v and Tintoretto, Titian's successors in Venice. Through Italian immigrant artists, the Renaissance reached northern Europe. In Francé, French... Tovább

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AbOUt thíS ITALY High Renaissance virtually ended with the Rnnlc death of Raphael in 1520. Renaissance forms lingered on in Venice, but elsewhere the nervous and refined sensibility summed up in the word Mannerism predominated in a world torn by the Reformation. Linda Murray describes the important part which Michelangelo, by now the dominant figure in Italian art, played in the transition from the simplicity of early High Renaissance art to the more sophisticated style of the later sixteenth century. His Last Judgement, the last Piéta groups, and the designs for St Peter's all fali in this period. The account of the growth of Mannerism includes Giulip Romano, Pontormo, Bronzino, Parmigianino, and the sculpture of Benvenuto Cellini; the architects Peruzzi and Vignola in Romé, and Palladio, Sansoyino and Sanmichele in \renice; and Veronesé v and Tintoretto, Titian's successors in Venice. Through Italian immigrant artists, the Renaissance reached northern Europe. In Francé, French Renaissance architecture came into being writh Lescot and Philibert de rOrme; in Flanders Matsys was the first major exponent. öf:<Antwerp' Mannerism. Holbein's career is - followed in Germany, and in England, where the ; - • English artists Hilliard, Eworth and Olivér became • : prominent, and where Renaissance architecturé was assimilated in Smythson's great houses, such as Long• • leat. Finally, in Spain, the most complete expression of Mannerism was to be embodied in the astonishing art of El Greco, who as a young man studied in Italy. Linda Murray first studied painting at the Académie Rovale des BeauxArts in Brussels, then at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has lectured for many vears in the Extramurai De» » . ¦ partment of the University of London. She is the author of The High Rehaissance, which precedes the present book / - . in the World of Art Library, and has written several books in collaboration wTith her husband Peter Murray, notably The Art of the Renaisscwce (the precursor of The High Renaissance in the same series) and the Dictionan of Art and Artists. Vissza