quattrocentIst

& a. [Eng., ., quattro cent(o); -ist.] A. As subst.: A painter of the Quattrocento school. "I began to trace the purity of work in the quattrocent ists."- Contemp. Review, April, 1886, p. 476. B. As adj .: Belonging to, or characteristic of the Italian painters of the fourteenth century. "The quattrocentist work became dearer to me."- Con temp. Review , April, 1886, p. 377.