quattrocento

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quattrocento

the 15th century, esp in reference to Renaissance Italian art and literature

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Quattrocento

In the style of the early Italian Renaissance during the 15th century; from the Italian meaning 400, referring to dates starting with the number 14, that is, 1400 to 1499.

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Quattrocento

an Italian term for the 15th century. In art studies the term refers to the period of the Early Renaissance in Italy. Quattrocento art, which reflected the Renaissance life-affirming world view, is marked by the poetic integrity of the perception of the world and by a search for new, scientifically based means of representing the real world. The 15th century was distinguished by the presence of a great number of artistic individuals and schools in Italy. The work of F. Brunelleschi and L. B. Alberti in architecture, of Donatello in sculpture, and of Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, and Giovanni Bellini in painting played a leading role in the formation of innovative Renaissance art forms during the quattrocento.

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The result is an appealing picture of a Quattrocento poised for one magical moment between the Middle Ages and modernity; between the rigidity of ecclesiastical ritual and theological doctrine, on the one hand, and, on the other, the heavy, self-conscious overlay of academicism, criticism, historiography, and theory first imposed in the sixteenth century and very much still with us.

When attitudes became form: Christopher S. Wood on Michael Baxandall (1933-2008)

The book begins with a very helpful account of the Lanfredini family--a small patrician lineage of no great age or distinction--in the Quattrocento, and then methodically takes its most famous son through his decade as the representative of the Medici bank in Venice in the 1470s.

Giovanni Lanfredini: Uomo d'affari e diplomatico nell'Italia del Quattrocento

He was a favored painter of the Medici family, the most powerful family in quattrocento Florence.

Classroom use of the art print

Chapter 5, entitled "The Spectacle of a Woman's Devotion," considers what Frazier terms "the most innovative of the Quattrocento humanists' vitae et passiones sanctorum" (221), Giacomo da Udine's life of a contemporary, devout widow named Elena of Udine (d.

Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy

Over the last thirty years considerable scholarly activity has been devoted to literary production in the Italian vernacular during the Quattrocento, conclusively underlining just how much the traditional epithet of 'secolo senza poesia' is a distortion of the truth.

'La fonte d'ogni eloquenzia': il canzoniere petrarchesco nella cultura poetica del Quattrocento ferrarese

In the Quattrocento, Bruni clearly inferred from his personal experience as an author that ancient Romans were obliged to study Latin in order to achieve literary elegance.

Humanism and Secularization from Petrarch to Valla

Yet in Quattrocento studies, the Baronian model has, Hankins tells us, "gone virtually unchallenged" (p.

Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections

The present exhibition, designed by Mario Bellini, is ambitious -- this is a big building after all -- nothing less than a reassessment of Quattrocento and Cinquecento architecture in Italy.

Civilization and leisure

See Elizabeth I; French Renaissance; humanism; quattrocento.

Renaissance

She uses these commentaries to argue that Quattrocento copies of the poem abounded because of Roman antiquarian interest, an interest shared by the members of the Roman Academy.

Antiquarian Voices: The Roman Academy and the Commentary Tradition on Ovid's Fasti

A Renaissance Architecture of Power: Princely Palaces in the Italian Quattrocento