The Entombment (pg. 661) and Madonna with the Long Neck (pg. 662) are two paintings that hold characteristics of mannerism. The both have some unnatural elements within the painting, and there are dreamy expressions on the faces of the people within the painting. But appearance of each one is very different.
Both of these paintings have some unnatural elements. The Entombment, all the people look very, one might say dreamy. I personally think it comes across of sad, worried, and miserable. About half of the people’s mouths are all slightly open, as if they were moaning. Their eyes are painting very drastically in whichever pose they are taking on. This painting is also very unnatural because there is no horizon line, like many of the humanistic paintings in the past. The people look as if they are piled on one another. To me, making it look like they climbing on one another as if they were trying to get always from something. Overall, I feel it is a depression painting. The Madonna with the Long Neck also shows many unnatural elements. First off, from the title of the piece, your eye is drawn to the main woman in the painting, and her neck is very long compared to the average human neck. It makes her look much taller then she would be, with a normal neck. At the lower right hand corner of the painting is a man. He is very unnatural looking, considering his height reaches only part way up the woman’s calf. He seems to be rolling out cloth of some sort, a very random man in an odd placement in the painting. The Madonna with the Long Neck also has unnatural dreamy expressions. I find these faces to be less… creepy than The Entombment painting, but they are unnatural nonetheless. The most obvious dreamy expression in the Madonna with the Long Neck is the child standing next to the woman; her expression is upward, staring dreamily up at the women, a very unnatural body language and facial expression, to me at least.
The Entombment painting is painted as if it is watercolor almost. The bodies and clothing of the people in the painting makes the paint look like watercolors. The shapes are not nearly as detailed and realistic as the humanistic time period, but very much stylized in the mannerism elegance. Madonna with the Long Neck is slightly more realistic in the technique that was used, or the people in the painting look a bit more realistic then The Entombment, but still not as humanistic as they did in the humanist time period. There are not blemishes on the people, and the detail is not as prominent as the humanistic period, which I guess is what makes it part of the mannerism time period.
Overall these The Entombment and Madonna with the Long neck both come across as very unnatural, and stylized. The Entombment is not pleasing to look at all for me personally. But the Madonna with the Long Neck seems to be much more attractive and interesting.