quattrocento

Fifteenth century Italy

Quattrocento is the fifteenth century, specifically in reference to Italian art and culture.

The term comes from the Italian for "four hundred," shorthand for the 1400s.

It covers the early Renaissance period of artists like Botticelli and Fra Angelico: the delicate lines characteristic of quattrocento painting. (Capitalized Quattrocento appears at sentence beginnings but refers to the same period.)

art

Botticelli

Quattrocento painter from Florence

frescoes · perspective · chiaroscuro · tempera · altarpiece · patronage · guilds · tondo

humanism

Petrarch

Medieval Italian lyric poet

Cicero · rhetoric · Latin · dialogue · virtue · dignity of man · Neoplatonism · vernacular · scholarship

Florence

Medici

Florentine banking dynasty

Baptistery · San Marco

Italy

Medici

Florentine banking dynasty

  • GonzagaPrivate Catholic university
  • VeniceLagoon city, northeastern Italy
  • MilanLombardy's capital city

Naples · Ferrara · Genoa · Siena · city-states · Borgia

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chronological period

quattrocento1500s

Sixteenth century

medieval period · Middle Ages · High Renaissance · modern era · antiquity

artistic development stage

quattrocentoHigh Renaissance

Italian art's zenith period

Mannerism · Baroque · medieval art · Byzantine · proto-Renaissance

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