quattrocento
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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
Vocabulary lists containing quattrocento
Art History
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Like many old masters of the quattrocento, he painted religious works, portraits and mythological scenes.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2015
And Cameron’s aristocratic-looking housemaid, Mary Hillier, modeled in Florentine costume for a profile portrait styled after quattrocento painting.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2013
As in many quattrocento paintings, the peripheral activity has a detached, dreamlike quality.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2013
His marbles of the Madonna and Child have the lyrical tenderness of the finest quattrocento masters.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2010
Michelangelo, with a finer instinct for harmony, a deeper grasp on his own dominant ideal, excluded this element of quattrocento decoration from his scheme.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds
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