Mannerism was an artistic style that followed the Renaissance. It predominated between the 1520s to 1590.
Mannerism is considered a reaction to the exhaustion of classic paradigms, and some of the mannerist values are listed below:
-Beauty ideals are in the mind of the artist.
-Scepticism
-Artificiality
-Pessimism
-Style and Technique over Meaning
-Exaggeration and Contrast