Mannerism

1. What was the Protestant Reformation?
2. What was the Act of Supremacy of 1534?
3. What was the Counter-Reformation?
4. What were the Inquisitions? How did they affect art?
5. What are the two different basic types of Mannerism? Describe them.
6. What are some of the typical elements of Mannerist works commissioned by wealthy secular patrons?
7. What are the Mannerist elements of Pontormo's Deposition? What previous art movement were his paintings a reaction against?
8. Discuss the style, symbolism and iconography found in Parmagianino's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"
9. What are the Mannerist elements of Parmigianino's Madonna with Long Neck?
10. What are the Mannerist elements of Agnolo Bronzino, Allegory called Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time?
11. What are some of the typical attributes of a painting by Tintoretto?
12. Discuss the style, symbolism and iconography of Tintoretto's "The Last Supper."
13. Describe El Greco's brand of Mannerism.
14. Explain how El Greco’s Burial of Count Orgaz has more than one level of reality.
15. How did Paolo Veronese accommodate the Church's request to altar his "Last Supper" to make it more acceptable?
16. How do we identify Correggio's style of Mannerist painting?
17. How is the artists own life reflected in sculpture, as exampled in Cellini's Salt Cellar of St. Francis?