A fundamental way that Mannerist artists took High Renaissance techniques “a step further” is via exaggeration.
Pioneered with the aid of Parmigianino, an Italian artist, Mannerists rejected realistic proportions and alternatively rendered figures with impossibly elongated limbs and oddly located bodies.
Mannerism originated as a response to the harmonious classicism and the idealized naturalism of High Renaissance art as practiced through Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael in the first two many years of the 16th century.
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