Table Of ContentMannerism, Spirituality, and
Cognition
This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by
incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elements of Man-
nerism as being grounded in sixteenth-century spirituality.
Lynette M. F. Bosch examines the conceptual vocabulary found in sixteenth-
century treatises on art from Giorgio Vasari to Federico Zuccari, which analyzes
how language and spirituality complement the visual styles of Mannerism. By
exploring the way in which writers from Leone Ebreo to Gabriele Paleotti describe
the interaction between art and spirituality, Bosch establishes a religious base for
the language of art in sixteenth-century Europe.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance stud-
ies, religious studies, and religious history.
Lynette M. F. Bosch, State University of New York Distinguished Professor and
Chair, Art History Department, SUNY, Geneseo.
Visual Culture in Early Modernity
Series Editor: Kelley Di Dio, University of Vermont
A forum for the critical inquiry of the visual arts in the early modern world, Visual
Culture in Early Modernity promotes new models of inquiry and new narratives of
early modern art and its history. The range of topics covered in this series includes,
but is not limited to, painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as material
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Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385–1550)
Lynn F. Jacobs
Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Culture
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Art and Reform in the Late Renaissance: After Trent
Edited by Jesse M. Locker
Artistic Circulation Between Early Modern Spain and Italy
Edited by Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio and Tommaso Mozzati
Architectural Rhetoric and the Iconography of Authority in Colonial Mexico:
The Casa de Montejo
C. Cody Barteet
Women’s Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe
Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Adelina Modesti
Mannerism, Spirituality, and Cognition
The Art Of Enargeia
Lynette M. F. Bosch
Mannerism, Spirituality, and
Cognition
The Art of Enargeia
Lynette M. F. Bosch
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For Liana De Girolami Cheney, Charles Burroughs, Paul Barolsky,
and Larry Silver
In Memoriam
Janet Cox-Rearick and H. Wiley Hitchcock
They embodied the best of an American intellectual tradition of art,
music, books, and the pursuit and transmission of knowledge.
Contents
Listoffigures viii
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue:mannerism(apersonalhistory) x
Introduction:approachingmannerism 1
1 Fromthearsnovatothemanieramoderna 6
2 Fromlifeliketoliving:enargeiaandthemanieramoderna 26
3 Enargeia,spirituality,andmaniera:FromSt.PaultoVasari 37
4 FromLeoneEbreotoFedericoZuccari:God’splanforart 52
5 Maniera:ahistory 72
Conclusion:mannerism,mysticism,andcognition 116
SelectedBibliography 133
Index 141
Figures
I.1 Pontormo,Jacopo(1494–1556/7).TheSupperatEmmaus.1525.Oil
oncanvas.90½×681/8in.(230×173cm) 3
I.2 AlbrechtDürer,SupperatEmmaus,c.1510,fromtheSmallPassion 4
C.1 Duccio(diBuoninsegna)(c.1260–1319).TheLastSupper.Panelfrom
thebackoftheMaestaaltarpiece.Museodell’OperaMetropolitana 120
C.2 LeonardodaVinci(1452–1519).TheLastSupper.1498.
Post-restoration.S.MariadelleGrazie 121
C.3 Massacio(MasodiSanGiovanni)(1401–1428).TheTrinity,fresco,
fullview.c.1425.Post-restoration.S.MariaNovella 123
Acknowledgments
The funding for this book began with a Franklin Research Grant from the Ameri-
can Philosophical Society (2004) and continued with additional research support
from the Geneseo Foundation, SUNY Geneseo, from 2006 to 2018.
I thank Erika Gaffney for her patience and her faith in my ability to complete
the manuscript, when she was at Ashgate. I especially thank Katie Armstrong, at
Routledge, for her patience and for her editorial assistance.
For numerous discussions and personal support over many years on the topic of
Mannerism, I thank, Diane Ahl, Paul Barolsky, Deborah Berendt, Judith Berg Sobré,
Mary Bergstein, Tina Waldeir Bizzarro, Laura Blanco, Charles Burroughs, Gregory
Clark, Janet Cox-Rearick, Mark Denaci, Liana De Girolami Cheney, Susan Duncan,
Conchy Fajardo-Hopkins, Mary Gibbons, Cristiano Giometti, Karen Goodchild,
George Gorse, Steve Hord, Maddu Huacuja, Fredrika Jacobs, H. Wiley Hitchcock,
William Hopkins, Thomas Jackson, Randy Barbara Kaplan, Dorothy Limouze, Tom
andLindaMacPherson,NorbertoMassi,JessicaMaratsos,AnneMatthews,Catherine
Mayes,LeatriceMendelsohn,RickMorales,FredandMirandaOrton,MaureenPelta,
Robert Penzer, Ann Priester Towne, Bianca Potterton, Naomi Sawelson, Larry Silver,
EllenShortell,Beryl,Dave,Jon,WillandCelesteStroll,andAdrianWilson.
In the trajectory of my scholarly career, it was Liana De Girolami Cheney, who
thought that I had something worthwhile to say about Mannerism. Paul Barolsky
and Larry Silver never failed to read my early essays. Larry was always there with
his ready eye and quick ability to point out where I should zig instead of zag. Paul
stopped me many times from going off cliffs. Maureen Pelta and Tina Waldeier
Bizzarro have always been there throughout the process of the work that led to this
book, and without their support and belief in my ability to complete it, I might not
have done it.
I owe gratitude above all to Charles Burroughs, my husband and friend, who has
been consistently loving, supportive, and constructively critical. He has unselfishly
devoted many hours of his own creative time to discussing my work and ideas,
always with joy and interest, as he has tirelessly accompanied me to museums,
churches, libraries, and archives in the pursuit of Mannerism. Writing this book
with him at my side has been a profound experience, as we have traveled, learned,
and grown together. I could ask for no more of an ideal husband and partner and
it is above all to him that this book is dedicated as a reflection of our life together.
This book is dedicated to Charles, to Liana de Girolami Cheney, to Paul Bar-
olsky, and to Larry Silver without whom it would not have been written, as they
persisted for eight years in telling me to ‘Get the damned book done!’
