Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The 17th century with reference to Italian literature and art.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Italian art and literature, the seventeenth century considered as the period of certain styles and certain masters. It succeeds the cinque-cento, or sixteenth century.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On the other hand, John Ruskin 1819-1900 despised the Italian baroque painting of the 17th century - the seicento.
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About Italian seicento painting in general, he wrote, "There is no entirely sincere or great art in the 17th century."
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When the National Gallery bought two paintings by the baroque artist Guido Reni, Ruskin condemned the purchase so fiercely that the gallery did not dare buy another seicento work for over half a century.
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Scritti sulla Nouvelle-France nel seicento Bari and Paris, 1984, 27–29.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Scritti sulla Nouvelle-France nel seicento Bari and Paris, 1984, 27–29.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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A well-known Italian essayist, Enrico Necioni, published an essay “Barrochismo” in La Vita italiana nel seicento
BAROQUE IN LITERATURE REN 1968
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In an embayed recess among the surrounding yew trees, leaning her back against the pedestal of a pleasantly comic version of the Medici Venus, executed by some nameless mason of the seicento, he saw Mary pensively sitting.
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928
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Early seicento Venice had expended all its extravagant art in the making of it.
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928
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In an embayed recess among the surrounding yew trees, leaning her back against the pedestal of a pleasantly comic version of the Medici Venus, executed by some nameless mason of the seicento, he saw Mary pensively sitting.
Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921
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Early seicento Venice had expended all its extravagant art in the making of it.
Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921
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