They paint using color combinations not found in naturalistic paintings. Italian Mannerists include the artists Parmigianino, Pontormo, and Vasari. This style of painting is identified with almost the opposite of naturalistic painting. To achieve this , painters would distort the human forms and objects. They create images outside of how nature presented them, and often used fanciful artificial shapes and unrealistic proportions to achieve this. They also use an extreme form of the technique called chiaroscuro, this is the use of a dark background to highlight a subject in bright light.
The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia is a Roman building in Ravenna, Italy. It was listed with seven other structures in Ravenna in the World Heritage List in 1996. The UNESCO experts describe it as "the earliest and best preserved of all mosaic monuments, and at the same time one of the most artistically perfect".
