English Dictionary

Cinquecentist

/tʃiŋkwɛˈtʃɛntɪst/

noun

An Italian of the sixteenth century, especially a poet or an artist. / A student or imitator of the art or literature of that period. / The style of art or architecture of that period.

Leonardo da Vinci was a famous Cinquecentist artist.

意味（1）

An Italian of the sixteenth century, especially a poet or an artist.

As a matter of good sense alone, it must sooner or later become clear to the mind of anyone that the Cinque-centists, on their own Italian ground teeming with relics of the past, and in the exhilarating intellectual air of their great philosophical revolution, enjoyed a truly grand architectural opportunity.

意味（2）

A student or imitator of the art or literature of that period.

意味（3）

The style of art or architecture of that period.

The style at large, called the Cinquecentist (that is, of the fifth—for fifteenth—century), or the Italian (because of its birthplace), or the modern or revived Classic (being the academical antique), is primarily based upon the columnar system of the Greeks, received by them historically from the East, and transmitted historically Westward (on the tide of empire) to Rome.