Trecento - The 1300s-- the fourteenth century.IsUsed to mostly refer to Italian art of that century. Return to top ...
trecento - Italian, literally "three hundred," it refers to the 1300s - the fourteenth century. It is especially used to refer to Italian art of that century, the time of the Middle Ages.
Soffici was impressed by Modigliani's "passionate interest in the painting techniques of the Sienese Trecento painters, and particularly in the Venetian, Carpaccio, whom he seemed to love the most at the time".
However, he was more interested in the works of the great innovators of the Tuscan trecento than in contemporary art.
What caused this rebirth of the visual arts is still unclear: the 14th century (trecento) in Europe witnessed several catastrophic harvests, the Black Death (1346), and a continuing war between England and France.
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A keen collector of classical antiques, he was also a historian, his Commentarii (uncompleted at his death) providing a valuable source of information about trecento artists, as well as containing the earliest surviving autobiography by an artist.
In the Middle Ages, artists like the 12th century Gislebertus sometimes signed their work, and were sought after by different cities, especially from the Trecento onwards in Italy, with figures like Arnolfo di Cambio, ...
anticipation of the fifteenth-century perspective system. Though their significance was once ignored, these small scenes are now recognized as an extremely important phase in the development of Giotto's conception of pictorial space. See trecento.
The other group of the Roman school was strongly influenced by periods of Italian style: archaic elements recalling trecento together with modern trends are present in these pictures. Paintings on religious subjects by Pál C.
 See also: Painting, Renaissance, Perspective, Sculpture, Gothic
  
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