...Mannerism. The Great Escape: The Sack of Rome in 1527 forced many Italian artists to flee abroad, taking the revolutionary art movement with them. (3 of 3) Also in ...

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak delves into the heart of Mannerism, as he explores the development of the art style, examines its characteristics, and questions what it achieved.

“In the whole of art, in all the zillions of altarpieces out there, there cannot be many depictions of religious events as wayward and wacky as this,” writes the London Times’ Waldemar Januszcza ...