Meaning of Counter-Mannerism | Babel Free

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A trend in the late sixteenth century that rejected some of the distortions of Mannerism, returning to a more classicist emphasis on clarity.

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“The decisive factor in the origins of Colonial painting in Peru came a few years later from late Italian Mannerism and Counter-Mannerism.”

“Nevertheless the artists did not create⟳ in "Counter-Mannerism" a wholly new stvle in the way that Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci were to do in the last⟳ decade of the century; it seems that, once trained in Mannerism, they could never entirely lose⟳ that touch⟳ of elegance and that beguiling preciosity which are still very evident in Barocci 's Deposition.”

“Domenico Cresti (or Crespi), known as “il Passignano” (from the name⟳ of the district of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, near Florence, where he was born, 1559–1638), was a painter of the late-Renaissance or Counter-Mannerism style; he was educated by the Vallombrosan monks.”

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