As the Renaissance moved slowly towards the ideas of neoclassicism, artist began to experiment. Mannerism became a stylistic vessel an artist could preform and try different things in. This small movement in Renaissance art obviously lead to more popular styles that could be classified as baroque.
Intentness attention to detail that did not necessarily have root in natural form aloud an artist to experiment with creating drama and tension in different ways. Figures acted less like religious symbols but were objects of perfect and over-dramatic detail.
obbviously still consisting of religions iconography, artists like Giorgio Vasari focused more on the detail of the figures, draping, hair, body position.
However with attention to specific detail, spacial relationships tended to lack. Figures are not always arranged harmoniously and often time are composed very similar in relationship to one another. Maneria was used often derogatively to describe paintings with lack of movement, repetition of facial or body characteristics. Beautifully boring and redundant art.
I find it interesting that Baroque art came right after Mannerism. They are such polar opposites in color, amount of drama, and amount of figures allowed.
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