From High Renaissance to Mannerism in the New West of Religious
Contention and Colonial Expansion Published April 16th 2012 by
Routledge – 880 pages Series: Architecture in Context The
rediscovery of classical ideas and the emergence of the great
artists, architects and theorists of late fithteenth and early
sixteenth-century Italy led to the cultural peak characterised
as the High Renaissance. This fifth volume in the Architecture
in Context series begins with a definition of Mannerism in art
and architecture, the seminal development from the High
Renaissance and the Baroque, associated with such dominant
figures as Raphael, Michelangelo, Vignola, Giulio Romano and
Palladio. The political context within which Mannerism and its
variants developed – from the Reformation to the outbreak of the
Thirty Years’ War, a period of devastating religious strife and
territorial contention – is outlined before the major figures
and achievements of Italian architecture in the period are dealt
with in great depth and breadt