Home › Words › Q › quadraturistquadraturist/ˈkwɒdɹət͡ʃəɹɪst/quadraturist means A person who paints quadratures.quadraturist is pronounced /ˈkwɒdɹət͡ʃəɹɪst/.EtymologyFrom Italian quadraturista. Equivalent to quadrature + -ist.nounA person who paints quadratures.e.g.“When the two friends were engaged in decorating the archiepiscopal palace at Ravenna, and at the courts of Parma and Modena, Mitelli alternately assisted the figurist and the quadraturist.” — 1854, Luigi Antonio Lanzi, The History of Painting in Italy, From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).