seicento

American  

[sey-chen-toh, se-chen-taw] / seɪˈtʃɛn toʊ, sɛˈtʃɛn tɔ /

noun

(often initial capital letter)

1. the 17th century, with reference to the Italian art or literature of that period.

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seicento British  

/ seiˈtʃɛnto /

noun

1. the 17th century with reference to Italian art and literature

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Etymology

Origin of seicento

1900–05; < Italian: short for mille seicento literally, a thousand six hundred

Example Sentences

Brown recalled how Mahon's love of art began: Nikolaus Pevsner, with whom he studied at the Courtauld Institute, suggested he study Guercino, and he gradually began to create his own collection of Italian seicento works, which were then wildly unfashionable.

From The Guardian

Shayne Colaco went missing on Saturday after leaving his Fiat Seicento car at Ogwen Cottage A land and air search is under way in Snowdonia for a 33-year-old climber who has gone missing.

From BBC

An experienced walker, he left his Fiat Seicento car at Ogwen Cottage on Saturday.

From BBC

These pages include some razor-sharp portraits — Seneca is described as “a hypocrite almost without equal in the ancient world,” Caravaggio as a saturnine genius who “thrashed about in the etiquette of early Seicento Rome like a shark in a net” — and some astute deconstructions of masterworks, like Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.

From New York Times

These neither disfigure nor offend the beautiful and venerable little towns in which they dwell; the smith has his anvil under a Lombard arch, the apothecary keeps his ointments and simples in old majolica vases, the barber's pole slants under a shrine of the Renascence, the cloth-seller piles his bales against the sculpture of a Seicento wall, the seedsman's sacks show the shining berries in their gaping mouths behind the iron scroll-work of medi�val kneeling-windows.

From Project Gutenberg