bambocciata

[ Italian bahm-bawt-chah-tah ]

noun

, plural bam·boc·cia·te [bahm-bawt-, chah, -te].

1. a genre painting of usually small size produced in Rome in the 17th century.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bambocciata¹

< Italian, equivalent to Bambocci ( o ) a nickname of the Dutch painter Pieter van Laer (1592–1645), who popularized such paintings in Rome + -ata -ade ¹

Example Sentences

The work to which I allude is a little dramatical composition, the Bambocciata, or puppet-show, by Martelli, entitled The Sneezing of Hercules.

From Project Gutenberg