‖ trecento
(treˈtʃɛnto)
[It., lit. ‘three hundred’, short for mil trecento 1300; cf. cinquecento.]
The fourteenth century (13..), as a period of Italian art, architecture, etc.; also attrib.
| 1841 W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 215 The vigour and expressiveness of the trecento. 1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl I. 9 The beautiful trecento windows were filled with eager faces. 1878 L. Villari Machiavelli (1898) I. iii. viii. 149 The literature of the Trecento may be considered as exclusively Tuscan. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 17 Mar. 3/1 They treat..of the trecento painters, of Giovanni Bellini and the early Venetians. |
Hence treˈcentist, ‖ trecenˈtista (It., pl. -isti), an Italian artist, author, etc., of the 14th c.
| 1821 Byron Juan iii. lxxxvi, In Italy he'd ape the ‘Trecentisti’. 1883 C. C. Perkins Ital. Sculpt. Introd. 23 The character of his work is so different from that of any other Italian trecentist. |