Mannerism, artistic style that predominated in Italy during the 1520s to the 1590s. Such Mannerist artists as Parmigianino and Jacopo da Pontormo evolved a style characterized by artificiality and artiness, by a cultivation of elegance and technical facility, and by a sophisticated indulgence in the bizarre.
To take stock of the past year, Artforum asked an international group of artists to select a single exhibition or event that most memorably caught their attention in 2021.DARREN BADER “The Medici: Portraits and Politics 1512–1570” (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) My first trip to the Met in at least seventeen months provided placid, people-free galleries, tears of simple happiness, and blessedly bad network service. My special exhibition mission was not to merely relish Florentine masters on loan, but to attend an unofficial Bronzino survey (the routine-dulled Frick portrait [Lodovico