How To Use Quattrocento In A Sentence
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The foundation of good government on humanist learning, forged by Italian humanists of the quattrocento, led to the extensive development of the mirror-for-prince genre in sixteenth-century northern Europe.
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Recalling that from early recorded history the sphere has represented an idealized form of the universe, it is understandable, particularly in light of the late quattrocento "rediscovery" of Plato and Plotinus, that the pearl embodied notions of perfection, unity, and purity in miniature.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Lodovico Capponi's inclusion of a stained-glass window in the decoration of his chapel can be traced to a fashion for stained-glass windows in private chapels that had been steadily spreading since the late quattrocento.
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In the second half of the 19th century some quattrocento paintings were acquired, reflecting the contemporary taste for ‘primitives’.
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These caused him to look particularly at what he believed to be the art of Dante's time, at the trecento as well as the quattrocento.
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Given that the big money these days seems reserved for such polished late-sixteenth- or early-seventeenth-century bronzes, the price of the Florentine quattrocento bronze model of Cupid in the same sale came as more of a surprise.
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The panel is highly unusual for the seventeenth century in having an integral frame in quattrocento style.
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Arico's Uccello series (dedicated to the quattrocento master of perspective) and the intriguingly elegant Perspectives made in 1970, explore the boundaries between geometric logic and visual space.
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Note 281: Although ontologically removed from the quattrocento, genetic engineering represents a recent essay into the hidden workings of the universe, reframing fundamental questions of predestiny and free will. back
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These delicious pagan amorini are the successors of the angelic putti of an earlier time, whom the Tuscan sculptors of the Quattrocento had already converted into more joyous and more earthly beings than their predecessors had imagined.
The Earlier Work of Titian
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During the trecento and quattrocento, the spirit of competition between S. Maria del Fiore and S. Giovanni guided their respective acquisitions of relics and commissions for reliquaries in which to house them.
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Amy Sillman's recent show of large oils and jewel-like gouaches was suffused with the color, light and atmosphere of Quattrocento Italy.
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The very periodization structure on which our histories are based depends on his heroic presence as a bulwark between trecento and quattrocento, as a signpost stating ‘the Renaissance starts here.’
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During the trecento and quattrocento, the spirit of competition between S. Maria del Fiore and S. Giovanni guided their respective acquisitions of relics and commissions for reliquaries in which to house them.
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As a result, icons came to be appreciated abroad as ‘Russian primitives,’ comparable to the panel paintings of the quattrocento in Italy.
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This is clear to us in the character of the trees and card players of a Cézanne, born in France, — in the curled sinuosities of the horizons and figures of a Van Gogh, born in Holland, — in the almost Arab ornamentation of a Picasso, born in Spain — or in the quattrocento linear feeling of a Modigliani, born in Italy.
'Chagall'
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Pincus's volume deals with the earliest examples of any of the four books, ducal tombs produced in Venice from the mid-duecento to the later quattrocento.
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It was Pound's fascination with the quattrocento, Sigismondo Malatesta, and the mythic allure of ancient rocks and water, in fact, that had the most direct influence on Stokes.
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Also, the vermiform constellation Draco, which traditionally occupies the polar position in the heavens of the northern hemisphere, encircles the center of a late quattrocento tapestry depicting the heavens as a wheel of fortune and an enormous astrolabe.
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This perceived ‘common ground’ and the documentary evidence for the high esteem in which northern art was held in the quattrocento are discussed in part one of the book.
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Whilst he still produced exquisite paintings his archaic style and the use of delineation, soon meant that he was left behind by other quattrocento artists like Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci.
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The main inspiration for Poccetti's panoramic views and genre detail comes from the fresco cycles of quattrocento Tuscany, and the naturalism of his figures and landscapes was enhanced by an appreciation of northern painting.
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The very periodization structure on which our histories are based depends on his heroic presence as a bulwark between trecento and quattrocento, as a signpost stating ‘the Renaissance starts here.’
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Debating groups like this are a common feature in Italian trecento and quattrocento narratives and usually serve to comment on scenes in the margin of which they appear, thus inviting the beholder to engage with what is represented.
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Uccello's descriptive detailing, such as the wood-beamed ceiling and tile floor represented in perspective, as well as the quattrocento dress of his painted figures also help to naturalize the host desecration legend in Italy.
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Federico's guests, even if they could not discern the names and encomia (prominently) inscribed on the portraits, would have recognized most of the uomini illustri through quattrocento artistic conventions used for each subject's clothing, accessories, and gestures.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Ranging from antiquities and ethnographia through medieval manuscripts and quattrocento panel paintings to Bacon and Polke, it is of course the European Fine Art Fair at Maastricht.
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These caused him to look particularly at what he believed to be the art of Dante's time, at the trecento as well as the quattrocento.
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Over Roman armour, he wears, strangely, the robe of a quattrocento patrician, frequently used in depictions of Florentine poets and men of letters.
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Machiavelli's suggestion, for example, that a prince "not deviate from what is good, if possible, but be able to do evil if constrained," must be appreciated in context. 140 Although political and military leaders were exhorted to virtues of constancy and temperance, the late quattrocento (and early cinquecento) was not a juste milieu, as Machiavelli illustrates:
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The Coronation altarpiece may well have been funded through a gift of land donated to the cloister at the end of the first decade of the quattrocento.
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It was common practice to employ this combination of supports from the late quattrocento to the mid-cinquecento, in order to strengthen the fragile woven supports used for painting at the time.
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The tondo, much more so than the altarpiece, was not a clear-cut category in quattrocento and early cinquecento Florence.
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More generally, Hills views the reconciling of color as a function of relief and of color as unbounded, ornamental, or expressive as the chief dilemma facing quattrocento artists.
