El Greco Domenikos Theotokopoulos . Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος. This is the painting that proved the art historians, who said Greco painted using his unique Mannerist style because of a vision problem, wrong. This painting shows Christ as a flesh and blood man, unlike his typical ethereal figures, thus demonstrating his style was his choice, not a visual defect.
Using Google Art To Explore Famous, Unfinished Paintings
Detail from unfinished painting by the mannerist painter Parmigianino, in the "simply abandoned" category, per James Elkins of Huffington Post. Elkins says this painting is mis-labeled "Madonna of San Zaccaria" in the Google Art Project scan. Elkins notes, "at the lower right...you see an extra foot to the right of Saint Jerome."
'Angeli' Prints - Agostino Carracci | AllPosters.com
Angeli by Agostino Carracci - Agostino Carracci (1557 – 1602) was an outstanding Italian Baroque artist who first gained fame for immaculate engravings. Carracci left a tailoring career to pursue art, creating lifelike works that were in direct opposition to the current Mannerist trend of distorting space and the human body. Carracci’s anatomical drawings were so accurate, they were used in schools for 200 years after his death. Along with his talented brother and cousin, Carracci founde...
Danube Landscape, 1525, oil on vellum on wood Albrecht Altdorfer secular, non-religious art with same northern concern for detail, yet in mannerist style, lanscape without figures Reflection or glorification of God's work on earth, poetic and mysterious, prefigures Romanticism of German lanscape painting, learned in Bavaria