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mannerist, n. and a.|ˈmænərɪst| Also 8 manierest. [f. manner n.1 + -ist. Cf. F. maniériste.] 1. One who is addicted to mannerism. spec. an exponent or adherent of Mannerism in art (see prec.).
1695Dryden Dufresnoy's Art Paint. 151 Those [Painters] whom we may call Mannerists, and who repeat five or six times over in the same Picture the same Hairs of a Head. 1716R. Graham Short Acc. Painters (ed. 2) 361 Pietro Berettini of Cortona... He is allow'd to have been the most agreeable Mannerist, that any Age has produc'd. 1751Warburton Notes on Pope's Imit. Hor. Ep. ii. i. 149 This excellent Colourist [Lely]..was an excessive Manierest. 1821Byron 6 Jan. in Moore Lett. & Jrnls. (1830) II. 399 The Italian comedian Vestris... Somewhat of a mannerist; but excellent in broad comedy. 1833J. Constable in C. R. Leslie Mem. Life J. Constable (1843) xii. 135 A certain set of painters who, having substituted falsehood for truth, and formed a style mean and mechanical, are termed mannerists. 1845A. Jameson Mem. Early Italian Painters II. x. 250 In the middle of the sixteenth century Italy swarmed with painters: these go under the general name of the mannerists, because they all imitated the manner of some one of the great masters who had gone before them. 1864R. N. Wornum Epochs of Painting 303 Hosts of copyists and mannerists arose,..with a mania for representing the naked human figure, [who] sacrificed almost every beauty, quality, and motive, to the paramount desire of anatomical display. 1871Lowell Pope Pr. Wks. 1890 IV. 27 Wordsworth..came at a time when the school which Pope founded had degenerated into a mob of mannerists. 1880Disraeli Endym. xlix, Every one to a certain degree is a mannerist; every one has his ways. 1907B. Berenson N. Italian Painters of Renaissance 156 The Mannerists, Tibaldi, Zuccaro, Fontana, thus quickly give place to the Eclectics. 1926[see academism 2]. 1951A. Hauser Social Hist. Art. I. v. 388 The antitheses of ‘Gothic’ and ‘Renaissance’..are still..irreconcilable in the outlook of the mannerists. 1956A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 229 There is not the slightest reason to believe that Catholic fervour was less intense in the age of the Mannerists than it had been three generations earlier. 2. In appositive use, passing into adj.
1934R. Wittkower in Art Bulletin XVI. 216 The Laurenziana belongs to a..group of buildings arranged on similar principles, common between 1520 and 1580/90 and to be called Mannerist. 1939Handbk. Drawings & Watercolours Dept. Prints & Drawings Brit. Mus. 38 The leading figure of this mannerist movement, which is largely occupied in elaborate decorative schemes in palaces and churches, was Francesco Salviati. 1944Archit. Rev. XCVI. 187 The author is, it seems, of the generation to which what we now define as Mannerist is nothing but a late phase of the Renaissance. 1964English Studies XLV. 98 The transition from the ambiguities of Mannerist expression to that of Baroque realism. 1972Guardian 17 Nov. 12/3 It was the influence of Raphael that informed the Mannerist artists whose work clusters round that of the giants. |