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Giovanni Rosso Fiorentino
1495 - 1540
Italian Florentine Mannerist Painter
Influences: Andrea del Sarto and Sano di Pietro
Education - Studied under Andrea del Sarto
Cause of Death - "ill vapors" possibly the plague
Description of the Mannerist Painting Style
The name mannerism comes from the Italian maniera, which translates to 'style'. Mannerism is an artistic style that was born in the early 1500s. The style originated in Italy and later widened to all of Europe. Mannerists paintings are characterized by elongated limbs, thin aquiline noses, tapering fingers, undersized heads, unusual and vibrant colours and a spiritual, almost vaporous atmosphere. There is usually a theatrical air of restless action, highly charged with emotional energy. The Mannerists in Italy worked on commission for a restricted audience of Vatican powerbrokers and royalty. The subjects they painted were generally pious religious themes, portraits and sometimes mythology. El Greco spurned the lavish commissions in favor of artistic freedom and went off to Spain and to pursue his own extraordinary vision.
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Masters of The Mannerist Style
Renaissance Art Characteristics and Key Descriptive Words and Phrases associated with the Renaissance Movement - rebirth, rediscovery of the classical world, City-state, Humanism, Humanist, Francesco Petrarch, Reform, The Prince, Theocracy, The Inquisition, Human Reasoning, publication of Della Pittura, a book about the laws of mathematical perspective for artists, sfumato, chiaroscuro, linear perspective, Heliocentric Theory, vanishing point, Savonarola, spiritually significant, illuminated manuscript, idealized biblical themes, scriptorium, emotion, illuminator, Age of Discovery, axonometric drawing, curiosity about the natural world, mythology, realistic use of colours and light, Bonfire of the Vanities, Old Testament stories, ethereal and foggy backgrounds, Gospel parables, The Blackdeath, romanticized landscapes, Christian symbolism.
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Quotes From Painters of the Renaissance Art Era
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. Leonardo
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painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. Leonardo da
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saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo
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