Paladino 5 Reflecting Venice is relatively better economic and political stability, Venetian Mannerism was less extreme. The inventive extension of classical usage by Palladio had a major impact on later English and American architecture (Wittkower 26, 27). The dramatic use of light by Tintoretto influenced Italian architecture to come. Along with all this, it was the works of Veronese that elaborated the Venetian concern with color, and lavish settings.

According to Michael Baxandall in Painting in the 20th Century, the Mannerist architects such as Giulio Romano employed classical motifs in an odd and strange way. Romano preferred to use vague relationships and strange ornamentation. Such painters as Pontormo, Parmigiannio, and Bronzino responded to the conflicts and dislocations of their age by emphasizing the unnatural and irrational. Compositions were elongated, compressed, asymmetrical, and entangled (Baxandall 89, 92, 93, 94).

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