People believed that Mannerisum was related to all of the turmoil in Europe at that point in time. It started right after the low Renaissance; Mannerisum had time to spring up right before the High Renaissance started. It ended right after the High Renaissance in most of Europe in the north Mannerisum lived on for another 100 years. Mannerisum was a special style of art that shows up in a lot of art today. The Sack of Rome was influential to Mannerisum all sorts of paintings depicted what happened during The Sack of Rome. Mannerisum influenced all sorts of agriculture in Europe most buildings including cathedrals were built in the image of Mannerisum style of art. Mannerisum depicts humans in contorted poses, focused on human, has a surreal feeling to all the paintings, it also stressed intellectual conceits. It was very rare to be applied to English visual and decorative arts. Hennery the 2nd style was a style based on Mannerisum. Many
mannerism painters fled Rome after the Sack of Rome in 1527. Mannerisum painters distorted human figures.
El Greco was born in Crete no one knows the exact date of birth because no records have been found if there were any. He moved to Venice in 1567 to start his painting career and make a name for himself.