Artists of the Mannerist School (1520-1600)

Mannerism (from the 'maniera' meaning simply style or stylishness) was essentially a reaction to the heavily stated but controlled idealism in the artworks of the High Renaissance. It also reflected the political turbulence of the period. For example, the dramatic writhing style visible in Michelangelo's Last Judgement fresco on the wall of the Sistine Chapel (1535-41) in Rome, perfectly captured the anguish of the sack of the city by a German mercenary army in 1527. Giambologna's dramatic and emotional sculpture also perfectly fits the mood of the era.

See below for a chronological list of Old Masters and other artists of the Mannerism movement. Unless otherwise indicated, the individuals listed are Italian and their speciality is fine art painting.

The Last Supper (1594) (Detail)
by Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto.

List of Mannerist Artists

Amico Aspertini 1474-1552
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564 Painter/Sculptor
Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo 1480-1548
Sebastiano del Piombo 1485-1547
Jacopo Sansovino 1486-1570 Sculptor
Alonso Berruguete 1488-1561 Spanish Sculptor/Painter/Architect
Correggio 1489-1534
Baccio Bandinelli 1493-1560 Sculptor
Rosso Fiorentino 1495-1540

Marriage at Cana (1563) (detail)
by Paolo Veronese.

Diego de Siloe 1495-1563 Spanish Sculptor/Architect
Giulio Romano 1499-1546
Polidoro da Caravaggio 1500-1543
Benvenuto Cellini 1500-1571 Sculptor/Goldsmith
Jan Sanders van Hemessen 1500-1566 Netherlandish
Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli 1500-1569
Andrea Schiavone 1500-1563
Niccolo Tribolo 1500-1550 Sculptor
Perino del Vaga 1501-1547
Agnolo Bronzino 1503-1572
Parmigianino 1503-1540
Francesco Primaticcio 1504-1570 Painter/Sculptor
Juan de Juni 1507-1577 French/Spanish Wood Carver, Sculptor

Portrait of Rudolfs II (1590)
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

Hans Speckaert Died c.1577 Flemish
Andrea Palladio 1508-1580 Architect
Danese Cattaneo 1509-1573 Sculptor
Leone Leoni 1509-1590 Sculptor
Daniele da Volterra 1509-1566 Painter/Sculptor
Francois Clouet 1510-1572 French
Jean Goujon 1510-1568 French Sculptor
Francesco Salviati 1510-1563
Lambert Sustris 1510-1560 Dutch
Bartolommeo Ammanati 1511-1592 Sculptor
Giorgio Vasari 1511-1574 Painter, Architect, Art-Historian
Niccolo dell'Abbate 1512-1571

For details of painting and sculpture
during the earlier part of the
15th and 16th centuries, see:

Renaissance Art in Florence
Renaissance Art in Rome
Renaissance Art in Venice

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Pirro Ligorio 1513-1583 Architect
Parrasio Micheli 1516-1578
Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto 1518-1594
Gaspar Becerra 1520-1570 Spanish Painter/Sculptor
Antoine Caron 1520-1598 French
Giorgio Ghisi 1520-1582 Engraver
Luis de Morales 1520-1586 Spanish
Giovanni Battista Moroni 1520-1578
Giuseppe Porta 1520-1575
Paolo Farinati 1524-1606
Alessandro Vittoria 1525-1608 Sculptor
Luca Cambiaso 1527-1585
Pellegrino Tibaldi 1527-1596
Paolo Veronese 1528-1588
Valerio Cioli 1529-1599 Sculptor
Giambologna 1529-1608 Flemish/ Sculptor
Bartolomeo Passerotti 1529-1592
Germain Pilon 1529-1590 French Renaissance Sculptor
Taddeo Zuccaro 1529-1566
Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1530-1593
Cornelis van Dalem 1530-1573 Dutch
Vincenzo Danti 1530-1576 Sculptor
Sofonisba Anguissola 1532-1625
Martin de Vos 1532-1603 Flemish
Pompeo Leoni 1533-1608 Sculptor
Alessandro Allori 1535-1607
Federico Barocci 1535-1612
Vincenzo Campi 1536-1591
Barthelemy Prieur (1536-1611) French Mannerist sculptor
Giovan Paolo Lomazzo 1538-1600
Lucia Anguissola 1540-1565
Hubert Gerhard 1540-1620 Dutch Sculptor
Jacopo Zucchi 1540-1596
El Greco 1541-1614 Greek/Spanish
Federico Zuccaro 1542-1609
Pierre Dumonstier 1545-1625 French
Bartholomeus Spranger 1546-1611 Flemish
Jacopo Ligozzi 1547-1627
Diana Scultori 1547-1612 Engraver
Peter de Witte 1548-1628 Netherlandish
Pietro Francavilla 1548-1615 Sculptor
Karel van Mander 1548-1606 Dutch Writer/Painter
Palma Giovane 1548-1628
Francesco Bassano 1549-1592
Il Nosadella 1549-1571
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino 1551-1608
Hans von Aachen 1552-1615 German
Cristoforo Roncalli 1552-1626
Otto van Veen 1556-1629 Flemish
Leandro Bassano 1557-1622
Adriaen de Vries 1560-1626 Dutch Sculptor
Pietro Bernini 1562-1629 Sculptor
Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem 1562-1638 Dutch
Abraham Bloemaert 1564-1651 Dutch
Nicolas Cordier 1565-1612 French Sculptor
Camillo Mariani 1565-1611 Sculptor
Joachim Antonisz. Wtewael 1566-1638 Dutch
Giuseppe Cesari 1568-1640
Giovanni Battista Crespi 1575-1633
Stefano Maderno 1576-1636 Sculptor
Georges Lallemant 1580-1636 French
Francesco Mochi 1580-1654 Sculptor
Luis Juarez 1585-1638 Mexican
Jacques Callot 1592-1635 French Engraver
Filippo Parodi 1630-1702 Sculptor
Michael Lukas Leopold Willmann 1630-1706 German
Antonio Carneo 1637-1692

For details of famous painters and sculptors from the Proto-Renaissance and Early Renaissance, see: Proto-Renaissance Artists (1300-1400); Early Renaissance Artists (1400-90) and High Renaissance Artists (1490-1530). For the arts in Spain, see: Spanish Renaissance Artists.

• For other art movements and periods, see: History of Art.
• For styles of painting and sculpture in Ireland, see: Irish Art Encyclopedia.