#5. Late Renaissance/ Mannerism

 Basically, 'Mannerism' a word of meaning is style and it is from Italian. According to Stokstad textbook, Mannerism was an anti-Classical movement in which artificiality, grace, and elegance took priority over the ordered balance and life like references that were hallmarks of High Renaissance art. In short, Mannerism period artworks are focused on human and depicted complex poses, so it is not a realistic and it also feels stale.
 Among the Mannerism painting, I would like to compare the Pontormo's Entombment and the Bronziono's Allegory with Venus and Cupid. There are some similarity between these paintings. First thing is that proportion of figures and space look unrealistic. Figures look like exaggerated and each figures have complicated poses. Even figures look moved limply, so it feels like distracted. I think that artist made these figures randomly. Their face expression and poses are looking separately, so overall the paintings look not unite at all.  Also, artists used weird colors in juxtaposition. They mixed and matched with improper colors, so it also made the paintings look not unite. In addition, viewer impossible to guess the background. These is no clue where it is and artist just put abstract things in the background. I think that because there is no linear perspective, these paintings could look unrealistic and boring. Unless any perspective thing is in the painting, it looks much better than these.
 About the Pontormo's Entombment, it is the fresco and altarpieces. I cannot easily guess about the story of this painting but i think that a woman is sad for a man's dead. Shadowy ground and cloudy sky made this painting as doom and gloom. I think that these is no space of beauty at all. All the figures located randomly so what I thought at the very first time is that I don't know what they are doing. I guess that there is supposed to be linear perspective in this painting. In the back, one woman looking down but her location looks so weird. I don't think that she looks like flying so every view must be felt same way as what I got. Also, Pntormo used really weird colors such as baby blue and pink with accents of olive green,yellow, and scarlet. Because of the weird color match, the painting looks unstable. 
 About the Bronziono's Allegory with Venus and Cupid, the artist Bronzino, his real name is Agnolo di Cosimo and he was assistant of Pontormo. According to textbook, it says that this painting is one of the strangest paintings of the sixteenth century. It contains all the formal, iconographical, and psychological characteristics of Mannerist art. There are two masks on the right under side, a dove interweave on the left under side.This painting break away formal composition of formal paintings. I even didn't know that there is a story til i read the textbook. I think that three figures in the foreground are the main characters in this painting. However, i guess because of the colors, the background figures and colors more catch my eyes. Blue fabric background looks weird, and this one also impossible to recognize the background. In addition, on the left side, a screaming man with tearing his hair is the most inapprehensible thing in this painting. I really don't know why the artist Bronzino made this painting just like this.