单词 | picture cycle |
释义 | > as lemmaspicture cycle picture cycle n. Art a series of pictures forming a narrative, esp. (in medieval art) a biblical or hagiographic narrative presented in illuminated manuscripts, stained-glass windows, etc. ΚΠ 1933 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 37 522/2 These lost miniatures probably were on evidence taken from other gospel picture-cycles. 1971 Amer. Notes & Queries Sept. 14/2 The whole vast field of early Biblical picture-cycles. 2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 16 June (Features section) 68 ‘Desolation’, the fifth and final scene from Thomas Cole's picture cycle, The Course of Empire (1836). < as lemmas |
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