Madonna of the Long Neck
In many ways, each artist has their own individual technologies and style feature, and during the 1520, Mannerism was a particular style for many artist adoption and favor. This style of art became popular in Florence and Rome in the late Renaissance. During this period artists got a lot of technical knowledge from it, such as the use of oil paints and perspective drawing. High renaissance art is character by the harmonious, natural, elegance and balance. However, the Mannerism art was very different, it was focus more on conflicting colors, misunderstood environment, and distorted proportions. Those painting sometime have a bizarre subject matter that combined with mythology, classical and Christianity. Although, work of art can often be classified by different time, and by the style is used, which always have a big difference with the colors, theme and hallucinations. Like The “Madonna of the Long Neck” was painted in 1543, by one of the famous Italian painter Parmigianino. This complex and intellectual Christian art with oil in Canvas, is located in Uffizi, Florence, which is a good example of mannerist characteristics of distorted proportion and complex composition.
Mannerism is known for its intellectual complexity and its artificial qualities. The Madonna of the long Neck really shows the style of Mannerism in a numerous of way, such as the subject matter with Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus, and the way he display the unrealistic method, such as the human sculpture was being an un proportional way. It depicts the characteristics of slender bodies. In this painting, every people have a very disproportionate long bodies, such as the Madonna has a abnormal long neck. Although, in this painting the most recognized Mannerism style was the baby Jesus, who is considered to be large and unrealistic for the real life. In this painting he showing the abstract style of it, and