English
Etymology
From the Italian word manierismo, derived from maniera.
Noun
mannerism
- In the artistic literature, a term coined by w:L. Lanzi|L. Lanzi at the end of the XVIII century to designate the ostentatious but innatural style of a pictorial current of the second half of the sixteenth century. In the contemporary criticism, the same current, understood as negation of the classicistic equilibrium and as search of a prebaroque, deforming expressivity; the analogue tendency present in the literature of the same age.
- In the field of figurative arts and of literature, every tendency that is inspired by previous models, aiming to the artificially varied reproduction of their expressive language.
- A group of dissociated, innatural, affected verbal and mimic behaviours that, in heavy form, are characteristic symptoms of schizophrenic states.
Translations
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French: maniérisme m
Italian: affettazione, leziosaggine.
- abitudine, vezzo, posa.
- manierismo.
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