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Mannerism
Meaning
Noun
●
A
noticeable
personal
habit
, a
verbal
or other (often, but not
necessarily
unconscious
)
habitual
behavior
peculiar
to an individual.
●
Exaggerated or
affected
style
in
art
,
speech
, or other behavior.
●
In Art & Literature:
In
literature
, an
ostentatious
and
unnatural
style
of the
second half
of the
sixteenth
century
. In the
contemporary
criticism
,
described
as a
negation
of the
classicist
equilibrium
, pre-Baroque, and
deforming
expressiveness.
●
In Art & Literature:
In
fine art
, a
style
that is
inspired
by
previous
models
,
aiming
to
reproduce
subjects
in an
expressive
language.
●
In Art:
A
style
of
art
developed at the
end of
the High Renaissance,
characterized
by the
deliberate
distortion
and
exaggeration
of
perspective
and especially the
elongation
of figures.
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Origin
mannerism
English
-ism
English
manierismo
Italian
maniera
Italian
manner
English
manere
Anglo-Norman
maniere
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
Sourced from
Etym
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