Chapter 22

During the High and the Late Renaissance period in Italy, artists, often in the employ of the papacy, further developed the interest in classical cultures, perspective, proportion and human anatomy that had characterized.
 
Mannerism emerged in the 1520s in the reaction to the High Renaissance style of Leonardo and Raphael. A prime features of Mannerist art is artifice. Renaissance painter generally strove to create art that appeared natural, whereas Mannerist artists were less inclined to disguise the contrvied nature of art production