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Definition of Quattrocentist

Quattrocentist
Quattrocento Quat`tro*cen"to, n. & a. [It., four hundred, used as an abbreviated expression for the dates beginning with fourteen hundred.] The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style. -- Quat`tro*cen"tist, n.

Meaning of Quattrocentist from wikipedia

- ideal of Raphaelesque perfection for the sincerity and severity of the quattrocentists. After his return from Rome he was entrusted with many important commissions...
- Koch and Peter von Cornelius, and came under the influence of the Quattrocentists. Efforts by Overbeck to convert him to Catholicism were, however, rejected...