Art's Wildest Movement: Mannerism

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Arts Documentary hosted by Waldemar Januszczak, published by BSkyB in 2024 - English narration

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Imagine a pebble stuck between two huge rocks. On one side looms the Renaissance, western civilisation's most prestigious epoch, an era that gave us Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael. On the other side looms the baroque age, the thunderously exciting century that unleashed Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velaquez, Rubens. Squeezed between these two cultural behemoths was "mannerism", an artistic moment fated to be overlooked. Chapter 1: Goodbye Renaissance A style of 16th-century European art in which the human imagination was allowed to run wild and be exciting. Chapter 2: The Crazy Age Some of the more surreal selections from the movement, including Giuseppe Arcimboldo's playful, fruity portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II titled Vertumnus. Chapter 3: The Great Escape The latter stages of mannerism when the Sack of Rome in 1527 forced many Italian artists to flee abroad, taking the revolutionary art movement with them.