quattrocento

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Italian craftsmen of the quattrocento were not averse to setting thus together, in one frame-work, the myths of our first parents and Alemena's son; partly, perhaps, because both subjects gave scope to the free treatment of the nude; but partly, also, we may venture to surmise, because the heroism of Hellas counterbalanced the sin of Eden.

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  1. noun The 15th-century period of Italian art and literature.

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  • Italian craftsmen of the quattrocento were not averse to setting thus together, in one frame-work, the myths of our first parents and Alemena's son; partly, perhaps, because both subjects gave scope to the free treatment of the nude; but partly, also, we may venture to surmise, because the heroism of Hellas counterbalanced the sin of Eden. —  New Italian sketches
  • Italian craftsmen of the quattrocento were not averse to setting thus together, in one framework, the myths of our first parents and Alemena's son: partly perhaps because both subjects gave scope to the free treatment of the nude; but partly also, we may venture to surmise, because the heroism of Hellas counterbalanced the sin of Eden. —  Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
  • But it's no more like yours than the tortuous stone staircase--half-ruined into the bargain!--in some castle of our quattrocento is like the `lightning elevator' in one of Mr. Verver's fifteen-storey buildings. —  The Golden Bowl — Complete
  • The costumes are _quattrocento_ Florentine, exactly rendered. —  New Italian sketches
  • But she belonged to the quattrocento rather than to the nineteenth century. —  The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
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  1. Italian, short for (mil) quattrocento, one thousand four hundred : quattro, four (from Latin quattuor; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots) + cento, hundred (from Latin centum; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Italian, literally 400 (from quattro, from Latin quattuor, four, + cento, from Latin centum, hundred), but used as an abbreviation of mille quattrocento, 1400, with reference to the century (1401-1500) in question. Cf. cinque-cento.
 

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