Mannerism (Crossword clue)

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• A peculiarity of speech or behavior
• A peculiar or unusual characteristic mode of movement
• A prevalent style of art during the later half of the sixteenth century
• A term sometimes applied to art of late 16th early 17th century Europe
• A highly formalized and elegant form of art which came into being in 16th-century Italy
• A style, c. 1520-1600, that arose in reaction to the harmony and proportion of the High Renaissance
• Post-renaissance religious art, an arid style portraying emotion through an exaggeration of form
• In a general sense, any affectation (unnatural imitation or exaggeration) of a style or manner in art
• Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520
• A style that developed in the sixteenth century as a reaction to the classical rationality and balanced harmony of the High Renaissance