The composition is crowded. The Mannerist
painters did not want to have the kind of
harmony Renaissance painters were craving
for. Mannerist artists and one of the most
emblematic Mannerist artist is El Greco himself.
He wanted to express religious, deep emotions,
and devotion. This death of religiosity produces
expressive colors and by saying expressive
colors, I mean that the colors are actually
not so natural-looking if you really have
a look at them. They look as if there was
an ethereal mist on top of some kind of a
natural color. You can see and sense tension,
and this is what a Mannerist painter wants
to achieve, wants to see in us, in viewers
and wants to evoke and provoke in us emotions,
attention, and some kind of emotional attachment
to the topic of a painting.