单词 | pinacotheca |
释义 | pinacothecan. A place for storing and exhibiting works of art; an art gallery. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > place for keeping or exhibiting art pinacotheca1624 antiquarium1651 art gallery1841 art museum1845 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 63 The..parlours, bathes, librarie and pinacloth, where coat Armors escuchions, painted tables, and counterfeates of strangers were kept.] 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 8 Pinacothecia (saith Vitruuius) by which he intendeth..certaine Repositories for workes of rarity in Picture or other Arts. 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata iii. 67 They plac'd and set up their Signa, Busts and Pictures in their Pinacotheca's and Repositories. 1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy 288 The pinacotheca of this building was a complete Museum of all the Curiosities of Art and Nature. 1844 Fraser's Mag. 30 315/1 Our walks through halls of art and pinacothecks. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. vi. 77 In the Pinacotheca of the Vatican..her easel was set up before many a famous picture. 1968 Listener 20 June 813/1 The pinacoteca displays the large, decorative Baroque canvases of the Bolognese painters. 1980 W. M. Spackman Presence with Secrets iii. i. 89 She rushed up to me in the pinacoteca and began screaming. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1624 |
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