Mannerism and Rococo Architecture
STYLE FILE
Origin
Italy
France
Major Influences
*Italian art, painting and architecture
*Light-hearted themes on painting architecture and sculpture.
*‘feminine style’- furniture, tapestry, clothing, interior design
Notable Features
*Intellectual and artificial, elongated forms, exaggerated and manipulated space
* sophisticated, light and airy, elegant and curvy
Key Facts
*a reaction against the used of certainty in building structures
*something out of the ‘conventional’
*no space for straight and plain lines, everything is elegant and sophisticated
Iconic Buildings in World Architecture
Palazzo del Te in Mantua
Basilica of the Vierehnheiligen in Germany
Key Buildings in the Philippines
Church of San Miguel Arcangel
Tanay Church
Miag-ao Church
The perfection of beauty in the Renaissance Period is on its height. Yet, some people had the passion to go for more. Through the power of imaginative minds, people try explore something new, things that are out of the ideal concept that the society tries to live in for so many years --- something unbalanced, artificial and not ideal but then intellectual, expressive, strong and elegant.
In the early 16th century, when proportion, symmetry and regularity of parts of Renaissance architecture are the emphasis and strong points of structures in the eyes of society, a new kind of artistic style showed up
known as Mannerism. A style that points out artificial and unbalanced but real character against the world’s ideal, symmetric and natural artistic style.
Mannerism is a traditional style in art and architecture that originated in Florence and Rome Italy and eventually spread throughout the northern part of Europe. It emerged as a reaction against the stability of form and perfect proportion of High Renaissance.
Trying to go out of the conventional style, mannerism was known for the distortion of its elements as oppose to the Renaissance’s style of
organizing space through
Origin
Italy
France
Major Influences
*Italian art, painting and architecture
*Light-hearted themes on painting architecture and sculpture.
*‘feminine style’- furniture, tapestry, clothing, interior design
Notable Features
*Intellectual and artificial, elongated forms, exaggerated and manipulated space
* sophisticated, light and airy, elegant and curvy
Key Facts
*a reaction against the used of certainty in building structures
*something out of the ‘conventional’
*no space for straight and plain lines, everything is elegant and sophisticated
Iconic Buildings in World Architecture
Palazzo del Te in Mantua
Basilica of the Vierehnheiligen in Germany
Key Buildings in the Philippines
Church of San Miguel Arcangel
Tanay Church
Miag-ao Church
The perfection of beauty in the Renaissance Period is on its height. Yet, some people had the passion to go for more. Through the power of imaginative minds, people try explore something new, things that are out of the ideal concept that the society tries to live in for so many years --- something unbalanced, artificial and not ideal but then intellectual, expressive, strong and elegant.
In the early 16th century, when proportion, symmetry and regularity of parts of Renaissance architecture are the emphasis and strong points of structures in the eyes of society, a new kind of artistic style showed up
known as Mannerism. A style that points out artificial and unbalanced but real character against the world’s ideal, symmetric and natural artistic style.
Mannerism is a traditional style in art and architecture that originated in Florence and Rome Italy and eventually spread throughout the northern part of Europe. It emerged as a reaction against the stability of form and perfect proportion of High Renaissance.
Trying to go out of the conventional style, mannerism was known for the distortion of its elements as oppose to the Renaissance’s style of
organizing space through
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