cinque-cento

They pooh-poohed their informants, professed to adhere without a doubt to their own first opinions, and the bust, to the great amusement of all the Florentine art-world, remained in its place of honor at the Louvre, exhibited as a cinque-cento terra-cotta for a long time after all Florence was perfectly cognizant of its real history, and after the young artist had produced three or four other busts all equally marked by unmistakable cinque-cento characteristics.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

One of the finest specimens of cinque-cento wood-work extant in

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

The church, paved with marble in the cinque-cento style, has some good stalls (1590), and over the marble altar a fresco by Poccetti.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

The nations compete with each other in adding to this equipment for a new revival, which seems, on the surface, to have more in its favor than had that of the cinque-cento.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

From this man he made a terra-cotta bust which few could have pronounced to be other than a _cinque-cento_ work, and a very fine one.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

Removed on the anniversary of his death, about thirty years ago, to the chapel of St. Jerome, the poet's remains are now covered by a huge marble monument in the cinque-cento style, adorned by a bas-relief of his funeral and

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

Later was added the cinque-cento front that projects over the footway, and has become so essential a characteristic in the eyes of those who care for Exeter.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

The Duke's library filled a series of rooms designed in the classical style of the cinque-cento.

The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899

It gives likewise a history of Christian mythology, iconography and symbolism; all that great body of popular beliefs about angels, devils, saints, martyrs, anchorites, miracles, etc., which Protestant iconoclasm and the pagan spirit of the _cinque-cento_ had long ago swept into the dust-bin as sheer idolatry and superstition.

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

When I hear Lelius yarning on about _quattro-cento_ and _cinque-cento_, I could drown myself.

Marriage à la mode Humphry Ward 1885