As a Manner(ism) of Fact!
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Here’s a Mannerist for you who, with the help of his surviving diary, was seen as sane as Rosso. You could see that in the expressions of his figures, there is a paranoid and anxious tension happening. Pontormo was a death obsessed hypochondriac who lived on the top floor of a tall house. You could only access his house through a ladder, too. He also used strange colors and perspectives.
That’s all.
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