Bronzino Allegory With Venus And Cupid

The styled that is called mannerism is a new style of art that developed into an anti-classical movement in which artificiality, grace, and elegance took priority over the ordered balance and lifelike references that were trademarks of High Renaissance art. This new style also reached architects that designed buildings that disregarded uniformity and balance and used classical orders in unconventional and even in playful ways. The artist differs from previous artist because they created paintings that let you wonder and make our own presumption of the meaning behind the painting.
A mannerist piece of art work is Bronzino’s “Allegory with Venus and Cupid” this painting contains all of the formal, iconographical, and emotional characteristics