The SCAD Writers’ Studio provides additional resources for accurate documentation and crediting all of your sources, both written and visual.

ReadingsPlease read the following sections from your required text, Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition:“The High Renaissance in Italy”“Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Northern Europe.”DiscussionsAll Discussion posts must adhere to the following guidelines:Create your post with inserted text and images. Attach a Microsoft Word document only when posting your in-progress and final essays.Use SCAD Library resources for all references. These include, but are not limited to SCAD’s Visual Image Database, JSTOR, ARTStor, and the SCAD Library’s Survey of Western Art Course Resources.Properly label and credit all images, and cite primary and secondary sources in Chicago/Turabian style. All properties of the work of art must clearly be identified, including the title, dates/periods, material data (size, materials, and techniques when known), and museum or location. The SCAD Writers’ Studio provides additional resources for accurate documentation and crediting all of your sources, both written and visual.Appropriately apply and integrate course terminology into your posts.Prompt 2: The term Mannerism derives from the Italian word maniera (one of Vasari’s criteria for evaluating art), meaning “manner” or “way of working.” Choose at least one work of art that demonstrates the emergence of Mannerism as an alternative that rejected the clarity and balance of classical tradition. Identify and analyze social and historical events that fueled this change.