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Rosso Fiorentino

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Giovan Battista di Jacopo (called Rosso Fiorentino, 1495–1540) was an Italian painter associated with early Mannerism, noted for emotionally charged color and dramatic, expressionistic compositions.

Associated with the 'maniera' (Mannerism); the Deposition in Volterra is frequently cited for its earthy depiction of Christ, emphatic use of color, and somber atmosphere.

The available review praises Rosso Fiorentino's Deposition in Volterra as a masterpiece of early Mannerism. It emphasizes the painting's emotional use of color, dramatic composition, and its earthy, somber treatment of Christ and the mourners. The review situates Rosso as an atypical but communicative Mannerist whose work reaches both intellect and heart.

For:students of art history, museum visitors, readers interested in Renaissance and Mannerist painting

 The Deposition in Volterra is one of the masterpieces of this overlooked artist - whose cherubs incidentally adorn the unsuspecting notebooks or folders of our contemporary high school students - that allows us to give some concreteness to the general premise around the style of the "maniera", and, above all, around its merits, despite the tone with which, even today, an artistic expression is branded as "mannerism": almost to signify a sterile, stale, repetitive, uninspired, and needlessly complex technique, not coincidentally antithetical to a preceding hypothetical classical or canonical model.

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