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Antwerp Mannerism is the name given to the style of a largely anonymous group of painters from Antwerp
Antwerp

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 in the beginning of the 16th century. The style bore no direct relation to Renaissance or Italian Mannerism
Mannerism

Mannerism is a Art periods of European art which emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but continued into the seventeenth century throughout much of Europe....
, but the name suggests a peculiarity that was a reaction to the "classic" style of the earlier Flemish painters
Early Netherlandish painting

Early Netherlandish painting is the work of those painting who were active in the Netherlands during the 15th and early 16th century Northern renaissance, especially in the flourishing cities of Bruges and Ghent....
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Antwerp Mannerism is the name given to the style of a largely anonymous group of painters from Antwerp
Antwerp

||-||-||-||}Antwerp is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions....
 in the beginning of the 16th century. The style bore no direct relation to Renaissance or Italian Mannerism
Mannerism

Mannerism is a Art periods of European art which emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but continued into the seventeenth century throughout much of Europe....
, but the name suggests a peculiarity that was a reaction to the "classic" style of the earlier Flemish painters
Early Netherlandish painting

Early Netherlandish painting is the work of those painting who were active in the Netherlands during the 15th and early 16th century Northern renaissance, especially in the flourishing cities of Bruges and Ghent....
. Although attempts have been made to identify the individual artists, most of the paintings remain attributed to anonymous masters
Anonymous masters

In the history of art and architecture, an anonymous master is an architect or Old Master painter whose work is known but not his or her name....
. Characteristic of Antwerp Mannerism are works attributed to Jan de Beer, those of the Master of 1518
Master of 1518

The Master of 1518 is a Flemish painter belonging to the stylistic school of Antwerp Mannerism. A group of unsigned paintings is attributed to this artist on stylistic grounds, and his name is derived from the date inscribed on the painted wings of a carved wooden altarpiece of the Life of the Virgin in St....
 (possibly Jan Mertens or Jan van Dornicke
Jan van Dornicke

Jan van Dornicke was a South Netherlandish painter who was born about 1470 and died about 1527. His first name is sometimes spelled ?Janssone?, and his last name is sometimes spelled ?van Doornik? or ?van Dornick?....
), and some early paintings of Jan Gossaert and Adriaen Isenbrandt. The paintings combine Early Netherlandish
Early Netherlandish painting

Early Netherlandish painting is the work of those painting who were active in the Netherlands during the 15th and early 16th century Northern renaissance, especially in the flourishing cities of Bruges and Ghent....
 and Northern Renaissance
Northern Renaissance

The Northern Renaissance is the term used to describe the Renaissance in northern Europe, or more broadly in Europe outside Italy. Before 1450 Italian Renaissance Renaissance humanism had little influence outside Italy....
 styles, and incorporate both Flemish and Italian traditions into the same compositions. Practitioners of the style frequently painted subjects such as the Adoration of the Magi and the Nativity
Nativity of Jesus in art

The Nativity of Jesus has been a major subject of Christian art since the 4th century. The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas, are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew the Evangelist and Luke the Evangelist, and further elaborated by written, oral and artistic tradit...
, both of which are generally represented as night scenes, crowded with figures and dramatically illuminated. The Adoration scenes were especially popular with the Antwerp Mannerists, who delighted in the patterns of the elaborate clothes worn by the Magi and the ornamentation of the architectural ruins in which the scene was set.

The next wave of influence from Italian painting came with Romanism
Romanism (painting)

Romanism was the style of painting of a group of artists in the late 15th and early 16th century from the Seventeen Provinces who began to visit Italy and started to incorporate Renaissance influences in their work....
, as seen in the later works of Gossaert.