quattrocento

(noun)

Term that denotes the 1400s, which may also be referred to as the 15th century Renaissance Italian period.

Related Terms

  • Mannerist
  • vanishing point
  • pilaster
  • entablature

(noun)

Renaissance Italian period during the 1400s.

Related Terms

  • Mannerist
  • vanishing point
  • pilaster
  • entablature

(noun)

The 1400s, the fifteenth-century Renaissance Italian period.

Related Terms

  • Mannerist
  • vanishing point
  • pilaster
  • entablature

Examples of quattrocento in the following topics:

  • Renaissance Painting After Masaccio

    • Masaccio is widely regarded as the first Renaissance painter of the Italian Quattrocento, and despite the brevity of his career, had the most profound influence on his successors.
    • Some of the most well known Florentine Quattrocento painters of the post-Masaccio period were Paolo Uccello (1397–1475), Piero della Francesca (1415–1492), and Fra Filippo Lippi (1406–1469).
    • Discuss the contribution of Masaccio to Renaissance art and his influence on painters of the Florentine Quattrocento
  • Pre-Raphaelites

    • The Pre-Raphaelites wanted a return to the abundant detail, intense colours and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian and Flemish art.
    • In attempts to revive the brilliance of colour found in Quattrocento art, Hunt and Millais developed a technique of painting in thin glazes of pigment over a wet white ground in the hope that the colours would retain jewel-like transparency and clarity.
  • Renaissance Painting: Masaccio

    • The artist most widely credited with first pioneering these techniques in 15th century Florence is Masaccio (1401–1428), the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.
  • Renaissance Architecture in Florence

    • The Quattrocento, or the 15th century in Florence, was marked by the development of the Renaissance style of architecture, which represented a conscious revival and development of ancient Greek and Roman architectural elements.
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