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Art of Italy
Periods
Etruscan Ancient Roman Gothic Renaissance and Mannerism Baroque and Rococo Neoclassical and 19th century Modern and contemporary
Centennial divisions
Trecento - Quattrocento - Cinquecento - Seicento - Settecento
Important art museums
Uffizi - Pinacoteca di Brera - Vatican Museums - Villa Borghese - Sabauda Gallery - Gallerie dell'Accademia - Pitti Palace - Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze - Bargello
Important art festivals
Venice Biennale - Rome Quadriennale
Major works
The Tribute Money (Masaccio) - Botticelli's Venus - Primavera - Mona Lisa - The Last Supper - Annunciation (Leonardo) - Sistine Chapel ceiling - Sistine Madonna - Pietà - The Last Judgment - The Creation of Adam - David (Michelangelo) - The School of Athens - The Battle of San Romano - Venus of Urbino - David (Donatello) - The Calling of St. Matthew - Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Italian artists
Painters - Sculptors - Architects - Photographers - Illustrators
Italian art schools
Bolognese school - Ferrarese school - Forlivese school - Florentine school - Lucchese and Pisan School - Sienese school - Venetian school
Art movements
Renaissance - Mannerism - Baroque - I Macchiaioli - Metaphysical art - Futurism - Arte Povera - Novecento Italiano - Pittura infamante - Purismo - Transavantgarde - Scuola Romana
Other topics
Italian architecture - Sculpture of Italy - Timeline of Italian artists to 1800 - Raphael Rooms
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The Trecento (Italian pronunciation: [treˈtʃɛnto]; Italian for 300, short for "mille trecento," 1300) refers to the 14th century in Italian cultural history.^[1]

Period

Art

Commonly the Trecento is considered to be the beginning of the Renaissance in art history. Painters of the Trecento included Giotto di Bondone, as well as painters of the Sienese School, which became the most important in Italy during the century, including Duccio di Buoninsegna, Simone Martini, Lippo Memmi, Ambrogio Lorenzetti and his brother Pietro. Important sculptors included two pupils of Giovanni Pisano: Arnolfo di Cambio and Tino di Camaino, and Bonino da Campione.

Vernacular writing

The Trecento was also famous as a time of heightened literary activity, with writers working in the vernacular instead of Latin. Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio were the leading writers of the age. Dante produced his famous La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), a summation of the medieval worldview, and Petrarch wrote verse in a lyrical style influenced by the Provençal poetry of the troubadours.

Secular music

In music, the Trecento was a time of vigorous activity in Italy, as it was in France, with which there was a frequent interchange of musicians and influences. Distinguishing the period from the preceding century was an emphasis on secular song, especially love lyrics; much of the surviving music is polyphonic, but the influence of the troubadours who came to Italy, fleeing the Albigensian Crusade in the early 13th century, is evident. In contrast to the artistic and literary achievements of the century, Trecento music (at least in written form) flourished in the second half of the century, and the period is often extended (especially in English-language scholarship) into the first decades of the 15th century, as a so-called "Long Trecento." Musicians and composers of the Trecento included the renowned Francesco Landini, as well as Maestro Piero, Gherardello da Firenze, Jacopo da Bologna, Giovanni da Cascia, Paolo "Tenorista" da Firenze, Niccolò da Perugia, Bartolino da Padova, Antonio Zachara da Teramo, Matteo da Perugia, and Johannes Ciconia.

See also

• Music of the Trecento


• Duecento


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  Quattrocento - the 15th century in Italian culture


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  Cinquecento - the 16th century in Italian culture


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  Seicento - the 17th century in Italian culture


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  Settecento - the 18th century in Italian culture


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  Italian Renaissance - started at end of 14th century

References

Further reading

• 
  Long, Michael (1990). "Trecento Italy". In McKinnon, James. Antiquity and the Middle Ages: From Ancient Greece to the 15th Century. Music and Society Series. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. pp. 241–268. ISBN 0130361615. 
  

External links

Media related to 14th-century in Italy at Wikimedia Commons