quattrocento

quattrocento.
Term (Italian: ‘four hundred’) applied to the 15th century (the 1400s) in Italian art. It can be used as a noun (‘painting of the quattrocento’) or as an adjective (‘quattrocento sculpture’). Terms used in the same way for other centuries are: dugento (or duecento) for the 13th century; trecento for the 14th century; cinquecento for the 16th century; seicento for the 17th century; settecento for the 18th century; ottocento for the 19th century; and novecento for the 20th century.