Historical Dictionary of Renaissance

QUATTROCENTO STYLE

In Italian, the 15th century, conceived as an historical and cultural epoch. Art his-torians speak of Quattrocento style as the art produced during the first two-thirds of the 15th century, fromBrunelleschi,Donatello, andMasacciodown to the earliest works ofLeonardo da Vinci, the old-est of the great masters of the High Renaissance style, whose earliest dated work was done in 1473.