bambocciata

[ Italian bahm-bawt-chah-tah ]

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noun

, plural bam·boc·cia·te [bahm-bawt-, chah, -te].

a genre painting of usually small size produced in Rome in the 17th century.

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Word History and Origins

< 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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