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[[left margin]] Friedlander Jacket blurb [[/left margin]] re: "Mannerists " Concept of Form Style became known as the "maniers"... emerged about 1520, as a new, subjective concept of art - Poutormo, Rosso & Parmigianino, reacting against the accepted canvas of ideal, balanced beauty of the High Renaissance, developed intensely personal & eccentric styles. The movement of which they were the leaders was characterized by a disregard for the natural in favor of arbitrary, asymmetric, and almost abstract treatment of figures in space - [[left margin]] Encyclopedie "Mannerisms" Pg. 318 [[/left margin]] The movement had its first expression in Florence about 1520 with Poutormo & Rosso & developed in Rome, where the latter met Parmigianino in 1524. After the sack of Rome in 1527, and the dispersal of the artists, Parmigianino spread the style in Northern Italy & Rosso brought it to the Fontainebleau in France. heading members: Bronzino, Vasari, & Salvistis. Influenced: Tintoretto, Greco (over)