Renaissance and Mannerism

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Renaissance and Mannerism
(16th-early 17th c.)

The exhibits in this room show Mannerist sculpture from large statues to very small ones which express the extremes of the period. They present social, religious, political and psychological opposites which find expression in all that is complicated and unusual, unnatural and unexpected. Sculptors consciously aimed at showing the human body in unstable and forced positions and often did not portray natural proportions. Melancholy was often paired with eroticism in female nudes.