His mannerist, almost dandyish, style has led serious people to make this same misjudgment.

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But for the Mannerist-style Archivo General de Indias, the good times were over before the building was even completed.

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These shapes, said Mr. Haverland, "trickle down the walls in kind of a mannerist way, " tapering in size from 25- to 4-inches-wide.

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In his wildly expressive, Mannerist heaven and eloquent, earthly realm, hints of El Greco's deeply idiosyncratic later style abound, one that would perfectly parallel the increasingly abstract theological tenets they embraced.

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He was lucky, after finishing his doctoral thesis, (on Giulio Romano, a Mannerist painter), to be invited to London to edit the papers of a great German art historian, Aby Warburg.

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Such exposure is apparent in Rosso's Mannerist "Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro" (1523) in the Uffizi museum in Florence, which resembles nothing so much as a brawl on an American river barge.

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