. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. ). A drawingor painting with lines or colours ;thence the object itself so drawn orpainted, a picture; of which the fol-lowing kinds are enumerated. 1. Pictura in tabula. (Cic. 4. 1. Quint, vi. 1. 32.) A paint-ing on wood or panel, mostly on aslab of larch, and frequently fittedwith two folding doors
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. ). A drawingor painting with lines or colours ;thence the object itself so drawn orpainted, a picture; of which the fol-lowing kinds are enumerated. 1. Pictura in tabula. (Cic. 4. 1. Quint, vi. 1. 32.) A paint-ing on wood or panel, mostly on aslab of larch, and frequently fittedwith two folding doors to shut inthe picture and. preserve it fromdust and dirt,as shown by theannexed exam-ple, from a de-sign at Pompeii,representing apicture on panelsuspended over a doorway, and alsoillustrating the method in which suchworks were hung. 2. Pictura in linteo, or, in sipario.(Plin. H. /. c.) Apainting on can-vas, a mate-rial probablybrought into useat a much laterdate than wood; but clearly represented
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