cinquecento
/ˌtʃɪŋkwɪˈtʃɛntəʊ
/noun (the cinquecento)
The 16th century as a period of Italian art, architecture, or literature, with a reversion to classical forms.Benedetto Montagna worked as a painter and engraver well into the cinquecento....
- Such complexity of meanings appealed marvelously to learned patrons and artists of the cinquecento.
- In the middle of the cinquecento, at least in certain cultivated circles, there was a taste for figures in paintings that ambiguously combined male and female characteristics.
Derivatives
cinquecentist
Origin
Italian, literally '500' (shortened from milcinquecento '1500') used with reference to the years 1500–99.
Rhymes
- the
- the acceptable face of ——
- the Acropolis
- the Adirondacks
- the Aleutians
- the Alleghenies
- the Allies
- the Almighty
- the American dream
- the Americas
- the Ancient of Days
- the ancients
- the angel in the house
- the Annunciation
- the answer to someone's prayers
- theanthropic
- the Antipodes
- the ant's pants
- the Apocalypse
- the Appalachians
- the apple never falls far from the tree
- the apple of one's eye
- thearchy
- the Armada
- the art of war