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bambocciata

[ Italian bahm-bawt-chah-tah ]

noun

, plural bam·boc·cia·te [bahm-bawt-, chah, -te].
  1. a genre painting of usually small size produced in Rome in the 17th century.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bambocciata1

< Italian, equivalent to Bambocci ( o ) a nickname of the Dutch painter Pieter van Laer (1592–1645), who popularized such paintings in Rome + -ata -ade 1

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