Masterworks at the Met: Mannerism’s Perverse Beauty
Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Mannerism transformed late Renaissance art with a new energy and a sense of the unexpected: jarring, dramatic transformations that could range from an exquisite, exaggerated elegance to dramatic scenarios, which some contemporaries called “terribilità” in painting. This series explores Mannerism in Italy; featured in the discussion are masterworks from the Metropolitan’s extraordinary collections, including Michelangelo’s Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso) (ca. 1510–1511); Bronzino’s Portrait of a Young Man (1530s), and Tintoretto’s The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (ca. 1545–50).
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