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Mannerism
Grace Baliker and Brooke Culbertson
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History
12th Grade
10/06/2012

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Term
Which piece of Michelangleo's later works influenced Mannerism?
Definition

Michelangleo's "Last Judgement"

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What are some characteristics of Mannerist Architecture?
Definition
  • Stylishness in design could be applied to a building as well as to a painting
  • Showed extensive knowledge of Roman architectural style
  • Complex
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Who wrote The Rule of the Five Orders of Architecture in 1563?
Definition
Giacomo da Vignola
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French Mannerism is centered around which school?
Definition

The School of Fontainebleau

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Which Mannerism artist replaced harmony with dissonance and discord?
Definition

Alessandro Allori ("Susanna and the Elders")

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Through which artwork in Mannerism was reason replaced by emotion?
Definition

"Pieta" by Rosso Fiorentino

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Why were bodies distorted in Mannerism artwork?
Definition

It was an attempt to express the religious tensions of the times.

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Who was one of the most well known artists of Mannerism?
Definition

El Greco

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What are the nine features/characteristics of mannerism?
Definition
  1. Replace harmony with dissonance and discord
  2. Replace reason with emotion
  3. Replace reality with imagination
  4. Create instability instead of equilibrium
  5. Bodies are distorted
  6. Colors are lurid
  7. Pictoral space is crowded
  8. A void in the center
  9. Hanging figures
Term
How did the role of the artist change during Mannerism?
Definition
The artist was equal in the courts of Europe with scholars, poets, and humanists.
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