Sypher’s Cipher: ‘Paradoxes of Conduct’ in the Reception of Mannerism, 1954-1973
This essay uses the reception of Wylie Sypher’s widely read, but ill-reputed Four Stages of Renaissance Style: Transformations in Art and Literature 1400–1700 in order to explore the uses and effects of a genre we might call ‘middlebrow Mannerism.’ Sypher and his mid-century peers’ over-reaching syn...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/stewart-halevy.pdf |