Mannerism

Mannerism is the usual English term for an approach to all the arts, particularly painting but not exclusive to it, a reaction to the High Renaissance, emerging after the Sack of Rome in 1527 shook Renaissance confidence, humanism and rationality to their foundations, and even Religion had split apart.

Further reading

• John Shearman, 1967. Mannerism A classic summation.
• Franzsepp Würtenberger, 1963. Mannerism: The European Style of the Sixteenth Century (Originally published in German, 1962).
• Giuliano Briganti, 1962. Italian Mannerism (Originally published in Italian, 1961).