mannerism meaning
ENWMannerism
- Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520.
- Stylistically, Mannerism encompasses a variety of approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the harmonious ideals associated with artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and early Michelangelo.
- The definition of Mannerism, and the phases within it, continues to be the subject of debate among art historians.
EN Mannerism
- NounPLmannerismsSUF-ism
- A group of verbal or other unconscious habitual behaviors peculiar to an individual.
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
- Exaggerated or effected style in art, speech, or other behavior.
- (art, literature) In literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth century. In the contemporary criticism, described as a negation of the classicist equilibrium, pre-Baroque, and deforming expressiveness.
- (art, literature) In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects in an expressive language.
- A group of verbal or other unconscious habitual behaviors peculiar to an individual.
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- They love to take off all the politicians' mannerisms.
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Source: Wiktionary