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Artcyclopedia: Mannerism
This commercial fine art search engine offers a list of many mannerist artists and links to related sites.
ArtLex: Mannerism
This commercial fine art search engine offers a list of many mannerist artists and links to related sites.
National Gallery of Art: Mannerism
This focus tour from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,
highlights the work of mannerist artists.
Televisual: Uffizi Collection of Mannerist Art
The Italian company Televisual presents a hyperlinked guide to the collection of the Uffizi Museum, with this focus page on the mannerist movement.
ITESM Campus Tampico: Mannerism
Produced in conjunction with a PBS documentary, this rich, attractively
designed site includes a time line, visual and textual primary sources,
classroom activities, bibliographies, and suggested links.
Tigertail Virtual Museum: Mannerism
The Tigertail Virtual Museum presents this overview of mannerist painting.
Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office: History of Mannerism
This page from the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office features
a guided tour of mannerist architecture, with key buildings and monuments.
Market House Books Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance: Mannerism
This entry from Market House Books Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance offers a useful introduction to the mannerist movement, with links to information about its primary practitioners.
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The High Renaissance and Mannerism: Italy, the North, and Spain, 1500–1600
From the World of Art series, this introduction to the High Renaissance examines prominent Italian artists and their counterparts in Spain and Northern Europe.
Mannerism: The Crisis of the Renaissance and the Origins of Modern Art
Arnold Hauser's classic text concerns the historical growth of convention
and eccentricity in art, exploring the mannerist period in terms of its
various cultural and aesthetic developments.
Readings in Italian Mannerism
Focusing on historiography, this collection of essays explores the period of Italian mannerism in art.
Thematic
The Portrait of Eccentricity: Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque
This engaging and idiosyncratic study of Giuseppe Arcimboldo's fascinating
mannerist portraits examines themes of the grotesque against the backdrop
of Renaissance humanism.
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El Greco in Focus
Websites
Artcyclopedia: El Greco
Artcyclopedia provides listings of the artist's works in museums and image galleries, as well as links to websites and articles.
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: El Greco
From Carol Gerten Fine Arts, this site includes many images and a biography taken from the Microsoft Encarta '97 encyclopedia.
Mark
Harden's Artchive: El Greco
Images, a biography, and a bibliography are presented here by Mark
Harden's Artchive.
Web Gallery of Art: El Greco
This easily searchable site, part of the Web Gallery of Art created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx, focuses on the work of El Greco. Included here are links to selected works.
National Gallery of Art: El Greco
This focus tour from the National Gallery of Art highlights the work of El Greco.
WebMuseum: El Greco
Nicholas Pioch's WebMuseum offers this overview of the life and
art of El Greco, with links to images and related artists.
Book Picks
El Greco: Identity and Transformation
With solid essays and rich illustrations, this exhibition catalog examines the eclectic nature of El Greco's distinctive style, and the variety of cultural contexts in which it was formed.
El Greco and His Patrons
Richard G. Mann takes on the "solitary genius" myth that has long surrounded El Greco's art in this study of the artist's relationships to his patrons.
El Greco: The Burial of Count Orgaz
The expository essay in this volume is brief, but the illustrations are spectacular—here you can see El Greco's famous painting in intricate detail and crisp color. Also included is a short biography of the artist.
El Greco in Toledo
This short, readable, and lavishly illustrated book explores El
Greco's relationship to Spanish art and its traditions.
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