Descent from the Cross

Rosso Fiorentino was a great master in early Mannerism. His representative painting Descent from the Cross showed apparent exaggerate effect on the figures' shapes. Particularly the figures' lines and color skills all showed typical Mannerist features. A young woman in the near sight looked out of the painting. She was Magdalene. Her image formed basic feeling of the painting. The people were busy with unloading Christ from the Cross. It looked more like a modern painting. By the aesthetic standard, the Mannerism paintings had separated from the realistic traditional and gave up the humanism. Mannerism remarked the ending of the Renaissance. For sure, the great Renaissance painting art did not break by Mannerism. In the 17th century, artists included Caravaggio inherited and developed the realism art spirit very well.