Mannerist paintings were classified as those paintings made during the later part of the Renaissance and which took imagery past the natural. The paintings often featured bright colors, contorted poses, and complex symbolism. These stylized paintings began to appear during the sixteenth century, near the end of the Renaissance. Rosso Fiorentino's painting, The Dead Christ with Angels, is a superb example of the mannerist tendencies that infiltrated art.
[...] Instead of looking weak, broken, and pained, Christ is depicted as robust and strong, proper to his calling as the savior of the world. The angels on either side of Christ can be readily identified by their unworldly composition. The only solid evidence that names these figures at angels is the partial wing that can be seen in the upper left corner of the painting. Fiorentino used the unworldly colors of their vestments to identify them as angels instead of blatantly giving them all wings. [...]
[...] The death of the Savior Mannerist paintings were classified as those paintings made during the later part of the Renaissance and which took imagery past the natural. The paintings often featured bright colors, contorted poses, and complex symbolism. These stylized paintings began to appear during the sixteenth century, near the end of the Renaissance. Rosso Fiorentino's painting, The Dead Christ with Angels, is a superb example of the mannerist tendencies that infiltrated art. The portrayal of Christ after his death and removal from the cross was a particularly popular scene in many religious paintings, but Fiorentino's mannerist rendition brings a different feeling to it. [...]
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