• QUATTROCENTO
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      • Quattrocento (Ital. four hundred)   The 15th century, i.e, the fourteen-hundreds. 'Quattrocento Mannerism' is a phrase sometimes used to describe the agitated style of a Botticelli or a Filippino Lippi, the assumption being that it is a 15th-century precursor of Mannerism.


      • Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists (Penguin Reference Books)

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