cinquecento

American  

[ching-kwi-chen-toh] / ˌtʃɪŋ kwɪˈtʃɛn toʊ /

noun

(often initial capital letter)

1. the 16th century, with reference to Italy, especially to the Italian art or literature of that period.

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cinquecento British  

/ ˌtʃɪŋkwɪˈtʃɛntəʊ /

noun

1. the 16th century, esp in reference to Italian art, architecture, or literature

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Other Word Forms

• cinquecentism
  noun
• cinquecentist
  noun

Etymology

Origin of cinquecento

1750–60; < Italian, short for mil cinque cento 1500, used for period a.d. 1500–99

Example Sentences

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cinquecento

Were he to unearth a distant ancestor, in cinquecento Florence, whose output is mostly attributed to “the workshop of Giacomo Paterfilio,” no one would be surprised.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 5, 2018

As in another picture of the same subject a banquet scene of the cinquecento was portrayed, here we have a typical genre picture of the 20th Century.

From Time Magazine Archive

Raphael, appearing in some scrofulous Sicilian hill town in the cinquecento, would hardly have altered the history of cart decoration.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among Venetian artists of the cinquecento, only Lorenzo Lotto, that great independent, resisted the pressure of his style.

From Time Magazine Archive

The editio princeps of these eclogues is not dated, but probably appeared in 1471, so that they were at any rate accessible to writers of the cinquecento.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.