Mannerism Architecture.

1. Mannerism Architecture
BY : BEESAN AJRASHI

2. Index :
- what is Mannerism Architecture?
- Piazza del Campidoglio
- Other examples on Mannerism Architecture
- Famous Examples of Mannerism Art
- Famous Architects
- What are characteristics of Mannerism?
- Mannerism VS Baroque

3. what is Mannerism Architecture?
Mannerism, style in art and architecture of
the 16th century, characterized by the
distortion of elements such as proportion
and space The term Mannerism derives
from the Italian word maniera, meaning
“style” or “way of working.”

4. Italian Manierismo, (from maniera,
“manner,” or “style”), artistic style that
predominated in Italy from the end of
the High Renaissance in the 1520s to
the beginnings of the Baroque style
around 1590.

5. Piazza del Campidoglio
The most famous example of Mannerist
architecture is the Piazza del
Campidoglio, a public plaza on the
Capitoline Hill in Rome. It was designed
by the Renaissance sculptor
Michelangelo, a reminder that Mannerism
was a transition from the High
Renaissance and often relied on shared
artists.

6. the Piazza del Campidoglio has
been the seat of the civil
administration of the city. On the
remains of the Tabularium stood a
fortress of the Corsi family, which
the Roman people took possession
of in 1114. It was destined as the
seat of the city senate and was
enlarged in the 14th century.

7. Other examples on
Mannerism Architecture

8. Palazzo Te – Mantova, Italy
Palazzo del Te” is one of the best examples of Mannerist architecture, and
this makes it no surprise that it was designed by one of the most renowned
Mannerist architects. Giulio Romano (1499-1546) was once a pupil of
Raphael (1483-1520) and expanded on his master’s learnings in the 16th
century. Constructed as a palace of leisure by the local Duke of
Mantua, and consists of a square building that is adjoined by a
courtyard lined with cloisters. This leads to a semicircular row of
colonnades known as an “Exedra,” the most remarkable element of
this building.

10. Vleeshal – Haarlem,
Netherlands
The building in the Dutch city just west of
Amsterdam was completed in 1603 and was
used to sell meat from this year until well into
the 19th century.
The stepped roofline is one of the most
distinctive features of Mannerist buildings in
the Low Countries. It was designed by a
Ghent-born architect named Lieven de Key
(1560-1627), a man who permanently put his
mark on Haarlem with other buildings such as
the “Waag,” the façade of the Frans Hals
Museum, and part of the Haarlem Town Hall.

13. Laurentian Library – Florence, Italy

16. St. John’s Co-Cathedral – Valletta,
Malta
The exterior of the church is rather plain but
the interior features a Mannerist layout and
Baroque decorations that are quite
exuberant. It was designed by Maltese
architect Girolamo Cassar (1520-1592), a
man who designed the other Mannerist
landmarks in the city as well.

17. The
exterior:

18. The
interior :

19. Great Armory – Gdansk, Poland
What’s remarkable is that the
building was incorporated into the
western part of the medieval city
walls of Gdansk. It served its
purpose as an armory until the 19th
century. Badly damaged during
World War II, the building was
restored after the war and returned
to its magnificent former glory.

22. Church of São Vicente de Fora – Lisbon, Portugal
The original monastery in this location was
established in 1147 but King Philip II of Spain, who
was also King Philip I of Portugal at the time, had it
completely reconstructed in the late 16th century.
The huge church was built between 1582 and 1629
and the monastery buildings weren’t completed
until the 18th century.

27. Cathedral Basilica of Salvador – Salvador, Brazil
It’s hard to deny the fact that the design of
this church was inspired by the Jesuit
Church of Coimbra in the Portuguese city
of Coimbra. Built on top of 3 former
churches, the current building was
constructed between 1654 and 1672.
Remarkably, the “Lioz” type of stone
that was used to build the church was
imported from Portugal in the 17th
century.

28. the Jesuit
Church of
Coimbra :

29. Cathedral Basilica of
Salvador:

30. Interior:

31. Church of St.
Bartholomew – Tęczyński
Chapel

32. Place: Southern
Poland
1618–1625

33. Arch : Michelangelo
Location : Rome, Italy

34. Famous Examples of Mannerism Art
Entombment of the Christ
(Deposition of Christ)
1525-1528 CE. Jacopo da
Pontormo. Santa Felicita
Church, Florence, Italy.
The Last Supper of San Salvi
(1519-1527). Andrea Del Sarto.
Vallombrosan Abbey, outside of
Florence, Rome.

35. The Playing Putto (1518) or Angel Playing the Lute. Uffizi, Florence, Italy.

36. Last Judgment. 1534-1541. Sistine Chapel, Vatican City,
Rome.

37. Convex Mirror. 1542. Parmigianino. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

38. Famous Architects

39. The two most famous Mannerist
architects were Michelangelo and Giulio
Romano.

40. Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni,
known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor,
painter, architect, and poet of the High
Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence,
his work was inspired by models from classical
antiquity and had a lasting influence on
Western art.

41. Giulio Romano
Giulio Romano, is the acquired name of Giulio
Pippi, who was an Italian painter and architect. He
was a pupil of Raphael, and his stylistic deviations
from High Renaissance classicism help define the
sixteenth-century style known as Mannerism.

42. Other Architects :
Federico Zuccari :
Federico Zuccaro, also known as Federico Zuccari, was
an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both
in Italy and abroad

43. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, often simply
called Vignola, was one of the great Italian
architects of 16th century Mannerism. His
two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese
at Caprarola and the Jesuits' Church of the
Gesù in Rome.

44. Sebastiano Serlio
Sebastiano Serlio was an Italian Mannerist
architect, who was part of the Italian team
building the Palace of Fontainebleau. Serlio
helped canonize the classical orders of
architecture in his influential treatise variously
known as I sette libri dell'architettura or Tutte
l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva.

45. What are characteristics of
Mannerism?
Slender, elongated limbs, splayed, twisting and turning bodies, contradicting all the
traditional laws of proportion, are a characteristic of Mannerism.
distortion of the human figure, a flattening of pictorial space, and a cultivated intellectual
sophistication.
Mannerist is a sixteenth century style of art and design characterised by artificiality,
elegance and sensuous distortion of the human figure.

46. Mannerism VS Baroque
Mannerism emerged after the
Renaissance period, and was
slowly replaced by the Baroque
period. There were major
differences between the
Renaissance, Mannerism, and
Baroque. Mannerism emphasized
elongated proportions, distorted
perspective and conventional
poses. Whereas, during the
baroque period, art was more
dramatic, and exaggerated motion,
power and control. These two
paintings here portray this vast
variance between the two periods.

47. Thank you
“Architecture should speak of its time and
place, but yearn for timelessness.”