Counter-Mannerism

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ mannerism

Noun

Counter-Mannerism (uncountable)

1. (art) A trend in the late sixteenth century that rejected some of the distortions of Mannerism, returning to a more classicist emphasis on clarity.
   • 1975, The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors:

     The decisive factor in the origins of Colonial painting in Peru came a few years later from late Italian Mannerism and Counter-Mannerism.

   • 1978, Gary R. Walters, Federico Barocci, anima naturaliter, page 72:

     Nevertheless the artists did not create in "Counter-Mannerism" a wholly new stvle in the way that Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci were to do in the last decade of the century; it seems that, once trained in Mannerism, they could never entirely lose that touch of elegance and that beguiling preciosity which are still very evident in Barocci 's Deposition.

   • 2019, Stefano Gattei, On the Life of Galileo:

     Domenico Cresti (or Crespi), known as “il Passignano” (from the name of the district of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, near Florence, where he was born, 1559–1638), was a painter of the late-Renaissance or Counter-Mannerism style; he was educated by the Vallombrosan monks.