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单词 quattrocento
释义 quattrocento, n. (and a.)|kwattroˈtʃɛnto|
[It., lit. ‘four hundred’, but used for ‘fourteen hundred’: cf. cinquecento.]
The fifteenth century (14..), as a period of Italian art, architecture, etc. Also attrib. or as adj.
1875J. H. Pollen Anc. & Mod. Furn. 61 The better known Italian furniture of the quattrocento..is gilt and painted.1882–3J. L. Corning in Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2139 We may include both of these—the quatrocento [sic] and the cinquecento—in the third great period of Christian sculpture.1921A. Huxley Let. 31 May (1969) 197 For my taste, at least, Florence is too tre- and quattrocento.1955Times 20 May 3/7 The settings [in a film] were purely quattrocento, very scholarly, and very pretty.1965F. Raphael Darling xxvi. 131 The pictures started with quattrocento pieces.1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Nov. 36/4 The charming cassone fronts of a minor painter called Apollonio di Giovannie, which look to us like decorative charades in quattrocento costume.1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 627/2 We know virtually everything we could hope to know about the decoration of a quattrocento chapel.
Hence quattroˈcentist, -cenˈtista (It., with pl. -isti), -centiste (F.), an Italian artist, author, etc. of the 15th c.; also attrib. or as adj.
1855Motley Corr. (1889) I. vi. 182 The wonderful Quattro Centisti of Florence, the painters, I mean, of the fifteenth century.1873Ouida Pascarel I. 66 He would bring out from its corner his little old quattrocentiste viol.1886Holman Hunt in Contemp. Rev. XLIX. 476, I began to trace the purity of work in the quattrocentists, to this drilling of undeviating manipulation.Ibid. 477 The quattrocentist work..became dearer to me as I progressed.
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