10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUATTROCENTISM»
Discover the use of
quattrocentism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
quattrocentism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Pre-Raphaelites: Writings and Sources
When it was pointed out to them that our pictures had never attempted
quattrocentism, they met this argument with the conclusion that we two were
unable to reach the exalted heights of the "arch Pre-Raphaelite." But this was not
all, comments ...
2
Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
2 archit a four-Iobed design, especially one that is used in open stonework. © 1
5c: French, from quatre four + foil leaf. quattrocento /kwatrou'tjentoo/ o noun the
15c, especially with reference to Italian Renaissance art. • quattrocentism noun.
3
The Songs and Sonets of John Donne
Donne, indeed, in this poem, takes elements from hyperbolic quattrocentism,
from medieval romance, from historiography, as well as from erotic literature and
Elizabethan slang; and the compound is entirely his own, a sparkling display of
wit, ...
John Donne, Theodore Redpath, 2009
4
Painting in Italy, 1500-1600
We saw of Beccafumi that his career before 1520 contained a phase of naive
Mannerism, the consequence of a conjunction between a mentality still
embedded in an incompletely rationalized - almost late-medieval - Sienese
Quattrocentism ...
Sydney Joseph Freedberg, 1976
5
A Portuguese-English Dictionary
quattrocentism. quatrocentista (adj.) quattrocento; (m.,/.) quattrocentist.
quatrocentos (adj.; m.) four hundred. quatrodobro -bra (adj.) fourfold. quatrolho -
lha (adj.) having white eyebrows. quatro-f61has (m.. Arch.) quatrefoil. quatro-
olhos (m., ...
James Lumpkin Taylor, Priscilla Clark Martin, 1970
6
Studies and notes: (literary and historical)
The numerical preponderance of the imitations from Sasso — the most
considerable expression of Quattrocentism on the Hispanic peninsula — is not a
matter limited to the author's subjective choice alone. In Italy the movement, at a
reaction ...
Joseph Guerin Fucilla, 1953
151-237, and J. Vianey: Le Pftrarquisme en France au XVI' Siide, Montpellier,
1909. For convenience, the words Quattrocentist and Quattrocentism will
hereafter be used to refer to these writers. 2 Collettanee grece, latine e vulgari
nella morte ...
... in this rapid review of painters of woman. In spite of the conventional
Quattrocentism of their settings, these last-named artists are truly faithful
interpreters of the- archangelic type described by Taine as 292 BEAUTIFUL
WOMEN IN ART.
Armand Pierre Marie Dayot, 1901
More quattrocentism is to be recognized in the weird owl watching the saint from
a cavity wherein, further, an imperfectly seen but very formidable demon is biting
his chains with rage. The right-hand corner (foreground) is filled-in with a profile ...
10
The Modern Language Review
Thus the question becomes not so much one of Petrarchism as of Quattrocentism
, if I may be allowed that ugly word, and Mr Berdan's main argument and the
shaky edifice constructed upon it fall to the ground. His second argument which
he ...
John George Robertson, 1908
