Architectural Styles
Mannerism
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1520-1600
- Verticality and elongated forms
- unusual or contradictory elements
- a focus on complexity
- Innovative spatial arrangements,
- unusual shapes
- elaborate decorative elements,
- intricate detailing
- ornamental motifs,
- a sense of theatricality
- asymmetry
- Italy, influencing Europe
- France
- Spain
- Netherlands
- Malta
- South America
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Palaces
- churches
- villas
- civic buildings
- town halls
- Palazzo del Te Mahtua
- Laurentian Library Florence
- Palazzo Farnese Rome
- Church of San Lorenzo Florence
- Teatro Olimpico Vocenza
- Church of the Gesù Rome
- Ducal Palace, Mantua
- Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne
- Laurentian Library
- St. John’s Co-Cathedral, in Valletta, Malta
- Cathedral Basilica of Salvador, Brazil
- Basilica of San Francisco Quito, Ecuador
- Vleeshal Haarlem, Netherlands
- The Town Hall Zamość, Poland
- Urban inns / hostelries
- Roadside inns and posting houses
- Taverns / wine-houses with lodging
- Pilgrim hospices and hospitals
- Monastery / convent guest lodging
- Merchant hostels / fondachi (lodging & storage)
- Private hospitality in palaces and villas
- University/clerical lodging
- Ospedale di Santo Spirito Pilgrim hospice in Sassia (Rome)
- Santa Maria della Scala Hospital (Siena)
- Palazzo Manfredi (Rome)
- Hotel de Russie (Rome)
- Palazzo Magnani Feroni
Adaptive Reuse
- Palazzo Navona Hotel (Rome)
- Palazzo Venart Luxury Hotel (Venice),
- Palazzo Albricci Peregrini (Como)
- Palazzo Orsini Hotel (Rome)
- Palazzo Cardinal Cesi (Rome)
- Palazzo Albricci Peregrini (Como)
- Parador de Úbeda (former Palace of the Deán Ortega)
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation