An artist, scholar, or enthusiast who specializes in or admires the art and culture of the Italian Renaissance (1500s).
From cinquecento + -ist (suffix for practitioners or believers). Developed as art historians needed terminology to describe specialists in Renaissance studies.
A cinquecentist is someone who loves Da Vinci and Michelangelo so much they've devoted their life to understanding that era—they're basically Renaissance scholars who won't shut up about the 1500s.
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