Word: parmigianino
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...hold the attention of his patrons, Tintoretto heightened the drama of his work, wrenching perspective and (Continued on page 83) filling his canvas with staring, hysterical figures. Parmigianino, following the new Mannerist dictum that form springs ready born from the artist's imagination, created a new kind of beauty, slender women with exquisitely enigmatic faces atop long, Modigliani-like necks. Courtiers, modeling themselves on Machiavelli's precepts, flocked to Bronzino for portraits that showed their faces expressionless masks, only a clutching hand or startled stare betraying their tension...