{"id":1914,"date":"2024-03-04T00:03:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T00:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2024-03-04T00:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T00:03:49","slug":"2-28-lecture-journal-the-late-renaissance-and-mannerism-in-sixteenth-century-northern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/03\/04\/2-28-lecture-journal-the-late-renaissance-and-mannerism-in-sixteenth-century-northern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"2\/28 Lecture Journal: The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in 16th-century Northern Europe."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Through tracing the evolution of one artist through the 15th century, we were able to see the change that had occurred throughout his career, of his own artistic and philosophical worldviews as well as the historical elements that had influenced these changes. Being the epitome of the image of the <em>uomo universale<\/em> (the Universal Man), an artist that embodies the neo-Platonist ideal, Michelangelo is the one artist through whose work this is possible. We started with his sculptural works during the High Renaissance period. While <em>Piet\u00e0,<\/em> without a doubt, is a mind-bogglingly powerful work, I was most struck by his abandoned project \u2013 the unfinished <em>Awakening Prisoner <\/em>sculpture. It\u2019s fascinating to witness a work of art that\u2019s both intentionally <em>and<\/em> accidentally expressing the liberation of the figure as well as the very essence of the act of marble carving, a way of creating animation from the rigid, of shaping the ideal human, of a sort of non-human virtuosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What late Michelangelo works possess, other than what still remains of his ability to infuse his works with complex ideals and philosophical ventures, is a drastic change of stylistic depictions of his themes. His paintings in the <em>Sistine Chapel<\/em> showcases a style that has not yet been seen on paintings of the High Renaissance \u2013 less usage of saturated, primary colors, less compositionally harmonious, less narratively coherent. But what is added is more than enough for us to still marvel over his art: the exaggerated expression of the human figure and human psychology, the added nuances upon familiar religious narratives (e.g the sibyls, the naked figures). These elements would go on to characterize the next dominant artistic movement of the time &#8211; Mannerism. Mannerism, as described as a style of painting by Vasari, is distinguishable from the art of the Renaissance from its rejection of rigid harmony and its embrace of asymmetry, of elegance and chaos, of highly stylized proportions, and above all, of the overt, dynamic expression of its subject matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through tracing the evolution of one artist through the 15th century, we were able to see the change that had occurred throughout his career, of his own artistic and philosophical worldviews as well as the historical elements that had influenced these changes. Being the epitome of the image of the uomo universale (the Universal Man), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}