trecento

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Both of them used rosy tints in the flesh, with greenish and yellowish shadows, both recall the older artists of the "trecento" in the perspective, which is often incorrect, and out of proportion.

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  1. noun The 14th century, especially with reference to Italian art and literature.

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  • Studying the works left in Florence by his great predecessors, leading a retired life, and purifying every idea, every inspiration in the fire of religion, Angelico was enabled, by meditation, to perfect the models of the best artists of the "trecento", among whom we should opine that the influence of Orcagna in his frescoes in the Strozzi Chapel of S. M. Novella, was greater even than that of Giotto. —  Fra Angelico
  • Both of them used rosy tints in the flesh, with greenish and yellowish shadows, both recall the older artists of the "trecento" in the perspective, which is often incorrect, and out of proportion. —  Fra Angelico
  • It may be necessary, therefore, to explain to those who are unacquainted with the Italian mode of speaking in this respect that the Italians always speak of what we should call the fourteenth century as the "trecento," what we should call the fifteenth, as the "quattrecento," and so on. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
  • Questo diserto s'estende da tramontana verso mezzogiorno trecento miglia. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
  • Affermano alcuni, che vi furono presenti, esser morte deile ciurme Veniziane da trecento uomini. —  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)
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  1. Italian, from (mil) trecento, (one thousand) three hundred : tre, three (from Latin trēs; see trei- in Indo-European roots) + cento, hundred (from Latin centum; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Italian, three hundred, used for ‘thirteen hundred’ (cf. cinque-cento), from Latin tres. three, + centum, hundred: see three and cent.
 

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