Quattro Cento (Ital., 'four hundred,' a contraction for one thousand four hundred; cf. CINQUE CENTO), in Italian a term for the 15th century, its literature and art; the early Renaissance. Outstanding Quattrocentisti in art are Donatello, Della Robbia, Brunellesco, Masaccio, Ghirlandajo, Lippo Lippi, and Mantegna.
Quattro Cento
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 523
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