The aim of this book is to focus on the origin of the historiography of the terms Mannerism and Maniera in paintings and drawings of the sixteenth-century in Italy. The articles herewith presented fall into two categories. The first group explains the definition of the terms Mannerism and Maniera, their periodicity, and their sources as illustrated by Giorogio Vasari, John Shearman, Craig Hugh Smyth, and Sydney Freedberg. The second deals with the polemic associated with the usage of the term and historiography and its application as voiced by Walter Friedlaender, Max Dvorak, Ernst Gombrich, Henri Zerner, David Summers, Malcolm Campbell, and Iris Cheney.

Autorentext

The Editor: Liana De Girolami Cheney, Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, is the author and editor of Botticelli's Neoplatonic Images; The Paintings of the Casa Vasari; Readings in Italian Mannerism; The Symbolism of Vanitas in the Arts; Literature and Music; Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the Arts; Essays on Women Artists: The most Excellent and Giorgio Vasari: The Painter of the «Lives». Her major articles include studies on Giorgio Vasari and Mannerist female painters (Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana and Barbara Longhi). Her forthcoming books are on Edward Burne-Jones' Mythological Paintings, Giorgio Vasari's Classical Art and Mythology and Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts, co-edited with John Hendrix.

Inhalt

Contents: Craig Hugh Smyth: Foreword - Liana De Girolami Cheney: Preface - Liana De Girolami Cheney: Introduction - Stylistic problems in Mannerism and Maniera - Liana De Girolami Cheney: Vasari's Position as an Exponent of the Maniera Style - Giorgio Vasari: Preface to the Third Part - John Shearman: Maniera as an Aesthetic Ideal - Craig Hugh Smyth: Mannerism and Maniera - Sydney J. Freedberg: Observations on the Painting of the Maniera - Walter F. Friedlaender: Mannerism and Anti-Mannerism in Italian Painting - Max Dvorák: El Greco and Mannerism - Ernst Hans Gombrich: Mannerism: The Historiographic Background - Henri Zerner: Observations on the Use of the Concept of Mannerism - Malcolm Campbell: Mannerism, Italian Style - David Summers: Maniera and Movement: The Figure Serpentinata - Iris Hofmeister Cheney: Mannerist Art: Survival and Collection.