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55 Although a contemporary American, figurative master John Currin is deeply enamored of art history — specifically the narrow period that reached its apotheosis in Italy after the Renaissance, before the Baroque. That movement, which flourished for decades within the 16th-century is mostly known to scholars and a scattering of college students enrolled in Art History 101. It goes by the name MANNERISM.