Definition of seicento in English:
seicento
noun seɪˈtʃɛntəʊsāˈCHenˌtō
mass noun, often as modifier The style of Italian art and literature of the 17th century.
Florentine seicento painting
Example sentencesExamples
- With the neo-Venetian revival of the early seicento, artists and critics participated in various ways in the reinvigoration of Venetian style.
- David Freedberg argued that the first quarter of the seicento witnessed an intense curiosity about optical devices such as telescopes and microscopes.
- These discoveries about the earliest form of genre painting in Italy open up the topic of realism in the seicento to further scrutiny.
- Boschi, who trained with Passignano in the late 1580s, is known today principally to specialists, but he enjoyed a considerable degree of popularity in the early seicento.
- This is hardly a fair summary of the Italian seicento but it is the standard Protestant idea of Counter-Reformation Italy in his day and later.
Origin
Italian, '600', shortened from mille seicento '1600', used with reference to the years 1600–99.