Mannered

Denys Calvaert
St Margaret
1589
drawing
British Museum

Mathieu Jacquet
Figure of Victory
1597
marble relief
(fragment of chimneypiece from Château de Fontainebleau)
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Léonard Limosin
Neptune and Doris
ca. 1550-75
enamel on copper
Musée du Louvre

Cornelis van Dalem
Baptism of Christ
before 1573
oil on copper
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Sculptor
after Johann Gregor van der Schardt
Venus
later 16th century
bronze statuette
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Marcello Venusti
Holy Family with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1560-70
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hans Heinrich Wägmann
Resurrection of Christ
1580
drawing
British Museum

attributed to Friedrich Sustris
St John the Baptist
before 1599
drawing
British Museum

Pietro Francavilla
David victorious over Goliath
ca. 1575-1600
marble
Musée du Louvre

Hans Memling
The Flight into Egypt
1562
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Cornelis Cort after Taddeo Zuccaro
Presentation of the Virgin
1570
engraving
Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich

Pierre Reymond
Expulsion from Paradise
1560
enamel on copper
Musée du Louvre

Angelo Falconetto after Parmigianino
St Matthias
before 1567
etching
British Museum

Raffaellino da Reggio (Raffaele Motta)
Virgin and Child with Saint
before 1578
drawing
British Museum

Simon de Mailly (Simon de Chalons)
Incredulity of St Thomas
1535
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Sculptor
Figure with lifted arm
later 16th century
bronze
Musée du Louvre

Antonio Fantuzzi (Antonio da Trento) after Parmigianino
St John the Baptist in the Desert
before 1550
chiaroscuro woodcut
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

I tell you (you needn't believe it) – I have found now

    clearly with my hand the limits of art.

The boundary has been set now which none may pass over. 

    But no human deed has been blameless.

– Parrhasius (painter of the 4th century BC)

   translated from the Greek Anthology by Richard Evans