‖ cinquecento
(tʃiŋkweˈtʃɛnto)
[Ital. = five hundred; but here short for mil cinque cento 1500.]
A term applied in Italy to the 16th century, and to that style of art and architecture, characterized by a reversion to classical forms, which arose about 1500. Also attrib.
| 1760 Goldsm. Cit. W. xxxiii, He showed us one [intaglio]..which he thought to be an antique, but my governor..soon found it to be an arrant cinque cento. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 394 Titian..was the last survivor of the great painters in the cinquecento, as the Italians call the sixteenth century. 1847 Ld. Lindsay Chr. Art. I. 38 Till the fifteenth century, when Latin, Lombard, and pointed architecture all went down before the revived antique or cinquecento. 1866 Reader 6 Jan. 20/1 The great cinquecento artists. 1876 Gwilt Archit., Cinquecento Architecture..In France..called Style Fran{cced}ois premier, and Renaissance; and in England the Revival, and Elizabethan. |