. Beforerepresentatives of the style were classified under either the Renaissance or the Baroque. Some of the most excellent Mannerist were banned from the gallery walls and the churchaltars. However, they produced works of great emotional impact. Probably the findingsof El Greco early in this century provided for the re-judgment of Mannerism as a style inits own right. Mannerism became a style bleeding with imaginative content which haddeliberately broken with reality, and often bordered beyond understanding and theirrational.Mannerism was thought of as anticlassical in that it broke the classic tradition-the tradition of Antiquity and the Renaissance. Mannerism surfaced in the first half ofthe sixteenth century in Florence and later throughout Italy who was desolate by theFrench and Spanish armies. In the full tide of the classic Renaissance a number ofstrange, restless works had come into existence. These new paintings first appeared inthe field of religious composition. They no longer expressed the classic beauty andsymmetry the reassurance of the Renaissance, which everyone could understand andcherish. Their aim was to be bright and determined on external effects. In many casesthey were more reminiscent of the conjuring tricks of a magician than the work of art thatsoothes and delights.Paintings of the Mannerist style tended to express beauty that affected a fashionand in turn produced an impact with supernatural visions. In other cases, the painterseemed chiefly concerned with tricks of brawn and muscle. Mannerist artists enjoyeddisagreement and paradox for their own sake in order to disconcert by the direct oppositeitself. The difficulty of the subject-matter made the artist well aware that they were livingin a world of tension. The interlacing conflicts expressed themselves in the spirit form ofmany works. A reason why the art of the Mannerist period was quicker to reflect the restlessuncertain atmosphere of the ...
