After the death of Raphael in 1520, the next generation in Italy was to see the rise of the complex and refined sensibility summed up in the term "Mannerism." I

The perception that the early sixteenth century saw a culmination of the Renaissance classical revival - only to degrade into mannerism shortly after Raphael's

Prepared for units SRA214, SRA414, SRA514 (Art and architecture of the High Renaissance and Mannerism) offered by the Faculty of Science and Technology's School