The Mannerism era of art was all about elegance, artificial exaggerations, and making artworks as grand and over-the-top as possible. It came after the natural, more harmonious Renaissance period, and ...

The late 16th and early 17th centuries saw major transformations in painting. For decades Mannerism had dominated, but the late 1500s saw artists take new approaches to their craft—approaches that ...

This exhibition examines the works of artists employed by European courts in the 16th century, such as the Medici in Florence, French royalty at Fontainebleau, and the Holy Roman Imperial courts in ...

“Looksmaxxing” might not be a word in the Bible, but that hasn't stopped others from using the term in response to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's latest acquisition — a Mannerist painting of an ...

FOR centuries “Mannerism” has been a dirty word in the art historian’s book, meaning “in the manner of” —or something akin to copycat. Renaissance enthusiasts use it to describe the painters who, in ...

“We live in an eclectic time in which everything can be considered architecture, so nothing is perhaps authentically so,” writes architect and theorist Lina Malfona. In her new book, published as part ...