Volume 19, Number 3 · August 31, 1972
Mind Your Maniera
By Henri Zerner
Painting in Italy 1500-1600
by Sidney J. Freedberg
Penguin, 556 pp., $29.50
Mannerism: Style and Civilization
by John Shearman
Penguin, 215 pp., $2.95 (paper)
On the first page of Painting in Italy 1500-1600, Sidney J. Freedberg describes the first decades of that century as 'the most extraordinary intersection of genius art history has ever known.' This evaluation, indeed, goes back to the sixteenth century and remained essentially unchallenged until the nineteenth, and it was so profound a conviction that the 'classical' style of these decades, originated by Leonardo and culminating in Raphael, became the measure of all art.
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