Mannerism/ Late Renaissance post #5

I picked option number one.
Pontormo's Entombment shows Mannerism in many areas and ways. First off the figures are elongated, like the torso of the person holding the body of Christ from behind it is a lot longer than the rest of the body parts. Second it has a definite lack of balance in most of the figures in this painting, especially with the person at the very bottom there is no way possible they would be able to hold up the weight of Christ's body while squatting on their tip toes. Third there are twisted compositions of the body. For example, Christ lower body is nicely sitting on the shoulders of the guy holding him up, but the upper body is twisted so that it looks like he is trying to face forward. There is also a girl at the top that is leaning slightly forward and to the side in a position that looks very uncomfortable and maybe even slightly painful. Last the composition as a whole is very uncomfortable looking, like they couldn't actually stand like that for a very long time.
The second paint I used Parmigianino's Madonna with the long neck is also a very visibly Mannerist painting. First the main figure or Madonna has a very stretched neck with long hands and larger thighs for the actual size of her body. There is also the baby that looks a lot older because of how it is stretched out and elongated. This painting has a lot of out stretched figures and body parts. Second I was going to say that there wasn't a lack of balance, but then I could see what she was sitting on so it made me believe that she might not be sitting on a chair so it gives it a slight lack of balance. Third, there is some twisted figures in this painting the main on is the baby the Madonna is holding his lower body lays out straight across her legs while as it goes to where her hand and skin meet the baby begins to twist. Then at his head it is twisted the other way as if she is not supporting his head. This painting has almost all the characteristics of a Mannerism painting.
Both of these works of art have some similarities and a couple differences. They both defiantly have a strong usage of unrealistic body proportion that makes them seem as if it was deformed or different then you would think it was. Also they both have many twisted figures even with the differences in the amount of people in each one. They do have some differnces. For exmaple, I don't think that the Madonna painting has an unconfortable composition, but I do this the Entombment does. Also while the Entombment painting has a lot of lack in balance, I don't feel the Madonna one does.
All in all, while these two art works from Pontormo and Parmigianino have similarities and differences they both visually look like they are from the Mannerist time period.