quattrocento
[kwah-troh-chen-toh; Italian kwaht-traw-chen-taw]
- the 15th century, used in reference to the Italian art and literature of that time.
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Origin of quattrocento
1870–75; < Italian, short for mil quattro cento 1400, occurring in the names of all the years from 1400 to 1499
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But with the story-tellers of the quattrocento it was no mere affectation.
Renaissance in Italy: Italian LiteratureJohn Addington Symonds
The naïveté of the quattrocento often invests its errors with attraction.
DonatelloDavid Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
As an artist, he has thoroughly outgrown the quattrocento style, and falls short only by a little of the greatest.
Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3John Addington Symonds
The portrait of Giovanni dei Medici is by an unknown hand of the Quattrocento.
The Story of FlorenceEdmund G. Gardner
But here, as elsewhere, the classicisms are held in check, and never invade or embarrass the dominant spirit of the Quattrocento.
DonatelloDavid Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
quattrocento
- the 15th century, esp in reference to Renaissance Italian art and literature
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Word Origin for quattrocento
Italian, shortened from milquattrocento 1400
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