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trecento

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tre·cen·to  (tr-chnt)
n.
The 14th century, especially with reference to Italian art and literature.

[Italian, from (mil) trecento, (one thousand) three hundred : tre, three (from Latin trs; see trei- in Indo-European roots) + cento, hundred (from Latin centum; see dek in Indo-European roots).]

trecento [treɪˈtʃɛntəʊ]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) the 14th century, esp with reference to Italian art and literature
[shortened from Italian mille trecento one thousand three hundred]
trecentist  n


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47 ND623 Giotto's fresco cycle, which is one of the most acclaimed works of the trecento, and the story of the creation of the Arena Chapel itself are the subject of an exhaustive analysis in this well-researched, heavily illustrated volume.
The second chapter grows out of a canonical article on the Virgin's bare breast in Trecento and Quattrocento art that Miles published more than twenty years ago.
Riflette poi sul significato poetico della scelta della terzina dantesca: che se da un lato inserisce il poema folenghiano nel territorio largamente inesplorato delle "opere bibliche volgari," dai Quattro Evangelli concordati in uno di Jacopo Gradenigo di fine Trecento all'Umanita di Cristo dell'Aretino stampata nel 1538, dall'altro risponde allo "sforzo di esporre solo il sacro vero" fuori da ogni finzione drammatica o romanzesca (10-12).
 
 
 
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