Latin, a painting.
pictura (plural picturae)
- The picture or image component of something such as an emblem or poem that contains a combination of imagery and text or symbols.
2004, Steven Paul Scher, Walter Bernhart, & Werner Wolf, Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004), ISBN 904201752X, page 57-58:
- It is customary to distinguish three components in an emblem: the pictura or symbolic image or picture, accompanied by the preceding inscriptio or motto and the subsequent subscriptio, usually an explication in verse of the idea expressed in combination of the inscriptio and the pictura.
2010, Simon McKeown, The International Emblem: From Incunabula to the Internet, ISBN 1443820067, page 183:
- Clearly, the relationship between pictura and motto became more literal in this emblem.
2014, Durant Waite Robertson, Essays in Medieval Culture, ISBN 1400856647, page 64:
- A poem may contain things which are significant in spite of the fact that the events it describes are a mere pictura of something which never happened.
- (zoology) A pattern of coloration.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
- “pictura” in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879.