All are invited to join the upcoming meeting of the *Styles and Method in the Early-Modern and the Modern Period Seminar*
*Emilie Passignat *(Ca' Foscari) *'Manner: Connoisseurship and Taxonomy, Individual and Collective Identity'* Date: *Thursday 12 May 2022* Time: *17.30-19.30 (CEST/Rome Time)* Place: *Online* (Zoom) *No registration needed. Please click *here <http://unive.zoom.us/j/6569494316>* to attend the meeting* *Abstract* The word "Mannerism" is relatively recent in the vocabulary of art history: it appears in Italy during the first half of the nineteenth century. Though it can be useful to elaborate the periodization of arts, Robert Rosenblum has rightly referred to period markers as “semantic straitjackets”, considering these tools hard to tolerate as well as quite impossible to reject. “Mannerism” has a meaning deeply stigmatized and often pejorative inherited from previous centuries, due to the evolution of the use of the term Maniera in the art theory and criticism. The purpose of this paper is thus to focus on some significant aspects of the history of “Maniera”, by giving some new considerations on this key term of the artistic vocabulary. This will aim to present some reflections on the adoption of the term “Maniera” in the artistic literature of the 16 th Century, to highlight some underlying theoretical problems that have so far been much too neglected. Above all, “Maniera” was intrinsically linked to the notion of imitation and has been particularly involved in the gradual emergence of the concept of school, since its apparent polysemy follows from the declination at different scales of what is specific to the individual and collective artistic identity, in space, in time and in the choice of models. *Speaker* Emilie Passignat <https://www.unive.it/data/persone/16911815/curriculum> obtained a PhD in art history at the University of Pisa and is currently researcher at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her research concerns artistic historiography, theories of art, sculpture and decorative cycles, with the background question of the reception and description of the work of art, as well as cultural exchanges in Modern Europe, especially between Italy and France. Recently published essays deals also with the question of visual norm and with the construction and evolution of artistic vocabulary. Among her latest publications *Il Cinquecento. Le fonti per la storia dell'arte* (Carocci 2017). Forthcoming publications concern the construction of art history during the 20th century. *More information* This seminar is organized by Matteo Vagelli and is part of the activities of EPISTYLE <https://pric.unive.it/projects/epistyle/home>. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement number 101030646. Visit the website of the project <https://pric.unive.it/projects/epistyle/home> for more information and the complete program. Please note that the meeting will be recorded. By participating, you give your consent. -- https://www.vidal-rosset.net/mailing_list_educasupphilo.html
