seicento

American  

[sey-chen-toh, se-chen-taw] / seɪˈtʃɛn toʊ, sɛˈtʃɛn tɔ /

noun

(often initial capital letter)

1. the 17th century, with reference to the Italian art or literature of that period.

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seicento British  

/ seiˈtʃɛnto /

noun

1. the 17th century with reference to Italian art and literature

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Etymology

Origin of seicento

1900–05; < Italian: short for mille seicento literally, a thousand six hundred

Example Sentences

He was determined to produce, for his clientele of the great, the tone and mellowed appearance of European seicento art.

From Time Magazine Archive

He thrashed about in the etiquette of early seicento cultivation like a shark in a net.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rulers of seicento Naples, along with their satellite nobility, were keen, sometimes obsessive patrons of painting, sculpture and architecture.

From Time Magazine Archive

Against its pedantry--the seicento equivalent, perhaps, of our "postmodern" cult of irony--Caravaggio's work proposed a return to the concrete, the tangible, the vernacular and the sincere.

From Time Magazine Archive

The "spirit of the age" which lured these seicento men into committing such archæological and artistic blunders, placed no boundary upon its evil work.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo