seicenton.
The seventeenth century considered as a period of Italian art. Also attributive.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > 17th century-mid 19th century > [noun] > period of Italian art
seicentismo1881
seicento1908
ottocento1928
1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert iv. 29 Beautiful specimens of Italian cabinets of the cinquecento and seicento.
1926 E. Hutton tr. A. Venturi Short Hist. Ital. Art vii. 339 The glory of the Seicento at Milan is summed up in the names of Ceraro and Cairo.
1938 Burlington Mag. Aug. 82/2 To pass from the seicento to the settecento is inevitably to experience a slackening of tension which the impressive body of Solimenas..do little to check.
1947 D. Mahon Stud. Seicento Art & Theory 1 The writer was primarily interested in discovering why this occurred, and became involved..with certain aspects of Seicento art theory.
1972 Listener 7 Sept. 317/2 Festive scraps from the Seicento.
1979 Now! 21 Sept. 116/1 Two outstanding seicento marble busts..remind the viewer of J. Pierpont Morgan's greater collection of sculpture formed in America with the help of Henry Duveen.
Derivatives
seiˈcentoist n. rare = seicentist n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary man > of specific place or period
Augustan1818
trecentist1821
seicentoist1830
cinquecentist1871
Victorian1876
Jacobean1885
seicentist1905
Georgian1913
neo-Georgian1923
Jindyworobak1938
wên jên1958
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > 17th century-mid 19th century > [noun] > period of Italian art > artist
seicentoist1830
seicentist1905
1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 146 The architect..has thought proper to have recourse to the ‘seicentoists’.
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