Figura Serpentinata

(noun)

Figura Serpentinata (Italian: serpentine figure) is a style in painting and sculpture that is typical of Mannerism. It is similar, but not identical, to contrapposto, and features figures often in a spiral pose.

Examples of Figura Serpentinata in the following topics:

Mannerist Sculpture
- Figura serpentinata (Italian: serpentine figure) is a style in painting and sculpture that is typical of Mannerism.
- In defining figura serpentinata, Emil Maurer writes of the painter and theorist Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo: "the recommended ideal form unites, after Lomazzo, three qualities: the pyramid, the 'serpentinata' movement and a certain numerical proportion, all three united to form one whole.
- With the loosening of the norms of the High Renaissance and the development of the "Serpentinata" style, the Mannerist style's structures and rules began to be systematized.
- He and his followers devised elegant, elongated examples of the figura serpentinata, often of two intertwined figures, that were interesting from all angles and joined the Piazza della Signora collection.
- In this 13' 6" high marble piece, Giambologna demonstrates the use of the figura serpentinata.