Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer or an artist of the sixteenth century; one who imitates the sixteenth-century style. See
cinque-cento . - noun A student of or authority on the period known as the cinque-cento.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An Italian of the sixteenth century, esp. a poet or artist.
- noun A student or imitator of the art or literature of the Cinquecento.
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Examples
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Michelangelo, in a passion, named the dealer -- one Baldassare -- to whom he had sent the statue after treating it, with the questionable morality of the cinquecentist, so as to give it the appearance of having lain in the ground, to the end that Baldassare might dispose of it as an antique.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912
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Michelangelo, in a passion, named the dealer -- one Baldassare -- to whom he had sent the statue after treating it, with the questionable morality of the cinquecentist, so as to give it the appearance of having lain in the ground, to the end that Baldassare might dispose of it as an antique.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912
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He deplored the necessity for the deed, but it was unavoidable, and your cinquecentist never shrank from anything that necessity imposed upon him.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Saturated undercoats and beautiful flesh browns, skin strokes in every sort of unnameable shade and many grays as well, glaucous and sky smoke, because it’s always winter in Chicago and the gang members belong to their terrain, to the pale brick and iced-over windows, and in this sense they could be brothers to the olive-skinned men in the frescoed gloom of some Umbrian church—Acey had the calm and somber eye of a cinquecentist.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Saturated undercoats and beautiful flesh browns, skin strokes in every sort of unnameable shade and many grays as well, glaucous and sky smoke, because it’s always winter in Chicago and the gang members belong to their terrain, to the pale brick and iced-over windows, and in this sense they could be brothers to the olive-skinned men in the frescoed gloom of some Umbrian church—Acey had the calm and somber eye of a cinquecentist.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Saturated undercoats and beautiful flesh browns, skin strokes in every sort of unnameable shade and many grays as well, glaucous and sky smoke, because it’s always winter in Chicago and the gang members belong to their terrain, to the pale brick and iced-over windows, and in this sense they could be brothers to the olive-skinned men in the frescoed gloom of some Umbrian church—Acey had the calm and somber eye of a cinquecentist.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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