pictor
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Fabius pictor: amor ipse conjunxit populos, &c 5890.
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- a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Columba
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Fabius pictor: amor ipse conjunxit populos, &c 5890.
— The Anatomy of Melancholy -
Et pictor, cum vi artis suae efficit, ut quaedam eminere in opere, quaedam recessisse credamus, ipse ea plana esse non nescit 2] x.
— The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius -
Grammaticus, rhetor, geometres, pictor, aliptes,
— Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature -
Laude al pictor, ma più laude in che scriva
— Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 - Of course, someone else can describe a painter as Master; he himself always subscribes himself pittor, pictor , or depentor 167] Dr. Gronau further points out (in a letter recently sent to the writer) that Titian, writing to the emperor in 1545, says: “I should have liked to take them (i.e. the paintings) to your Majesty in person, but that my age and the length of the journey forbade such a course” (C. and C. ii. 103). — Giorgione
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