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quattrocento::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Like the marble stripes in a quattrocento cathedral, these subtle flourishes enrich the composition of the facade.
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Mandragola, set in Italy at the close of the quattrocento, uses the stones of Florence to soften up a girl's resistance.
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When Italian artists of the quattrocento painted the Virgin Mary, they simply depicted a beautiful woman in a more or less naturalistic setting.
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He works up his figures with a quattrocento Florentine passion for detail, and flings off flying draperies with the airy exuberance of a Bernini.
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Artists and critics went overboard, comparing Queen's primitive tapestries to Klee, Picasso and the works of the Sienese quattrocento masters.
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According to many film scholars and au-teurists, old Hollywood seems to have been an amalgam of quattrocento Florence and Periclean Greece.
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And then Greenblatt tells the remarkable story of Poggius Florentinus, a humanist of quattrocento Italy who had an extraordinary ability to find ancient documents.
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A thoughtful, driven man who rarely sleeps more than five hours a night and resembles a quattrocento fresco of an obscure saint, Giuliani has put the Southern District into overdrive.
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By adapting the new forms of the Italian quattrocento and connecting them to the already robust tradition of the German print, he almost singlehandedly provoked the Northern Renaissance.
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- The 15th century in Italian art and literature
- The cultural and artistic events of 15th century Italy are collectively referred to as the Quattrocento (from the Italian for '400, or from "millequattrocento," 1400). Quattrocento encompasses the artistic styles of the late Middle Ages (most notably International Gothic) and the early Renaissance.
- The 1400s, the fifteenth-century Renaissance Italian period
- The 15th century in Italian art. The term is often used of the new style of art that was characteristic of the Early Renaissance, in particular works by Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli, Fra Angelico and others. It was preceded by the Trecento and followed by the Cinquecento.
