Crossword clues for mannerist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mannerist \Man"ner*ist\, n. [Cf. F. mani['e]riste.] One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s in the artistic sense; see mannerism + -ist.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone especially interested in personal manners 2 One who has many idiosyncratic mannerisms
Usage examples of "mannerist".
Late Renaissance, a Mannerist, one whose style typified the movement toward elegance.
His work had something of the Mannerist style about it and was overwrought and exaggerated.
A pronounced mannerist he was no less a man of strength, and even in his shadow-saturated colors a painter with the color instinct.
Dick and has been one of the finest mannerist stylists of SF dark humor for more than forty years.
He could talk your ear off about Wall Street and then tell you why the Sistine Chapel ceiling is actually a Mannerist work, not from the Renaissance.
It looked, unfortunately, as if advantage had been taken by both parties, of wealth being exchanged for comeliness, as in some dire Mannerist allegory.
Similarly there is not the slightest reason to believe that Catholic fervor was less intense in the age of the Mannerists than it had been three generations earlier.
These men are known in art history as the Mannerists, and the men whose works they imitated were chiefly Raphael, Michael Angelo, and Correggio.
They started out to correct the faults of the Mannerists, and yet their own art was based more on the art of their great predecessors than on nature.
The most of these followers find classification under the Mannerists of the Decadence.
Italy--imitating not the best models either, but the Mannerists, the Eclectics, and the Roman painters of the Decadence.
But diction is only part of expression, and, as I have just hinted, it would seem as if, before his lesson in pure style was fully learned, he had passed under the fascination of the mannerists, and particularly of Pope.
A pronounced mannerist he was no less a man of strength, and even in his shadow-saturated colors a painter with the color instinct.