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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Some light marking on cover and spine due to age See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> As you know the set book for this unit is John Shearman’s Mannerism a section of which you have read for Unit 5. I think the best way to approach this week’s work on painting in Florence and Rome c.1520-70 is to begin by re-reading Shearman’s first chapter and answering the questions below. Throughout this unit however I shall refer to passages in Mannerism so it will obviously be to your advantage to have read the entire book before you go any further. Mannerism is a work about which art historians still argue excitedly although it was first published in 1967 and the paper from which it grew was read at an art-historical congress in 1961. It is a brilliant attempt to bring back to life the values of a period long past. Shearman strips away layers of anachronistic interpretations (see below pp. 9 10) imposed upon many sixteenth-century works of art and tries to look at them afresh with the eyes of sixteenth-century artists and their clients. He brings together evidence from literature and music as well as contemporary writings on art to make his point: there is a sixteenth- century style growing out of but distinct from the style of the High Renais- sance; it is characterized by artificiality. (LL)