Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A picture-gallery, especially in Greek antiquity One of the most important stood just outside the Propylæa on the Acropolis at Athens, on the left as one entered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A picture gallery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
art gallery (especially a picture gallery)
Etymologies
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Examples
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In ancient Greece and Rome, a pinacotheca was a picture gallery.
Stars and Stripes 2009
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The pinacotheca of this building was a complete musaeum of all the curiosities of art and nature; and there were public schools for all the sciences.
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Landscape, on the other hand, illustrated nothing, represented no important event deserving of record, and was thus totally without significance in a Grecian temple or pinacotheca.
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The artistic spirit shown in the whole plan and decoration of the new pinacotheca is worthy of admiration.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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But Aulus began to walk with long steps over the mosaic of the pinacotheca.
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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Many consider the north wing of the Acropolis 'Propylaea, with its paintings, the original pinacotheca.
Stars and Stripes 2009
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The old general gave command to prepare his litter at once; meanwhile, shutting himself up with Pomponia in the pinacotheca adjoining the oecus, he said to her, -- "Listen to me, Pomponia.
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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