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The 15th century in Renaissance Italian art and literature

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quattrocento

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The 1400s, the fifteenth-century Renaissance Italian period.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the fifteenth century as a period in art and architecture," 1847, from Italian quattrocento , literally "four hundred," short for mille quattrocento "one thousand four hundred," in reference to a period beginning in "1400;" see four + hundred .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the 15th century in Italian art and literature

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quattrocento \Quat`tro*cen"to\, n. & a. [It., four hundred, used as an abbreviated expression for the dates beginning with fourteen hundred.] The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The cultural and artistic events of 15th century Italy are collectively referred to as the Quattrocento (; from the Italian for the number 400, or from "millequattrocento," 1400). Quattrocento encompasses the artistic styles of the late Middle Ages (most ...

Usage examples of quattrocento.

The museum had a superb collection of Quattrocento paintings, including a Masaccio polyptych I had admired for years.

This class continued to influence Florence well into the Quattrocento, with the support of certain wealthy anti-Guelf families, and the fact that they were anti-Guelf was enough to cause suspicions of Ghibelline sympathies.

In questo stesso baule trovai anche quattrocento reali, ma oro non ce n'era: evidentemente apparteneva a un marinaio più povero dell'altro, che invece doveva essere un ufficiale.

Il gorilla che aveva dato i migliori risultati, una femmina di nome Koko, che era stata al centro di innumerevoli servizi giornalistici nel decennio passato, aveva raggiunto, si riteneva, un vocabolario di quel linguag­gio di segni di circa quattrocento parole.