num_pages: 216
description: Manierismo was the extreme consciousness of elegant style for its own sake a passion which unites the cold narcissistic nudes of Bronzino the elaborate chiselling of Benvenuto Cellini's saltcellar and the water-games in a duke's garden. Shearman's essay ranges across sixteenth-century music literature and architecture as well as art: it is a model of breadth and concision. - Observer
language: English
title: Mannerism
publisher: Penguin Books