Word Finder - pictorial

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A newspaper or magazine with many pictures, or section thereof

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An article primarily featuring many photographs, or simply a collection of photographs

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A stamp featuring a vignette of local scenery or culture.

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Of, relating to, composed of, or illustrated by pictures.

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Described or otherwise represented as if in a picture; graphic or vivid.

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Stylistically similar to a painting, especially following pictorial conventions (of a photograph) – see pictorialism.

No mention is anywhere made of a hieroglyphical writing, but on the eastern frontier the medicine-men or tomba of the Moso have a peculiar pictorial writing, which is known in Europe from two published MSS.

Their general purport is shown in many cases by pictorial figures relating to various objects which appear on them - such as chariots and horses, ingots and metal vases, arms and implements, stores of corn, &c., flocks and herds.

Many of the feature articles were largely pictorial, with an emphasis on historical British aircraft.

In the days of its greatest power Rhodes became famous as a centre of pictorial and plastic art; it gave rise to a school of eclectic oratory whose chief representative was Apollonius Molon, the teacher of Cicero; it was the birthplace of the Stoic philosopher Panaetius; the home of the poet Apollonius Rhodius and the historian Posidonius.

Pictorial art of a purely indigenous character, whether on ceramic material or plaster, made great strides, and from ceramic forms we may legitimately infer also a high skill in metallurgy.

So perfectly does the modern Japanese embroiderer elaborate his scheme of values that all the essential elements of pictorial effectschiaroscuro, aerial perspective and atmosphere are present in his work.

Of the epic poets of the Silver Age P. Papinius Statius (c. 45-96) shows the greatest technical skill and the richest pictorial fancy in the execution of detail; but his epics have no true inspiring motive, and, although the recitation of the Thebaid could attract and charm an audience in the days of Juvenal, it really belongs to the class of poems so unsparingly condemned both by him and Martial.

Reinach, therefore, supposes that in the Stone age which succeeded, pictorial art was banned because it had got into the hands of magicians and had come to be regarded as inevitably uncanny and malefic. This is certainly the secret of the ordinary Mahommedan prohibition of pictures and statues, which goes even to the length of denying to poor little Arab girls the enjoyment of having dolls.

Most of the websites that carry patio furniture repair parts also provide detailed and easy to understand directions, online instructional videos, or pictorial how-to guides.

The inlay is typically for a medallion or larger pictorial floor, ceiling, columns, or walls.

By entering in a couple of addresses, you can find pictorial routes with distances between each new turn.

You can plug "birthday cake ideas" or "birthday cake designs" into any major Internet search engine to get a list of URL and pictorial results that are easy to browse.

Katie Price's modeling career took off in 1996 when she appeared in The Sun as part of the "Page 3" pictorial.

In the mid-1990s, Fawcett agreed to a pictorial in Playboy magazine, perhaps to once again boost her pin-up status.

Lefebvre will appear on the cover of the June issue as well as a pictorial of nude photos in the issue.

And, just to ensure that she continues to gain a little of the spotlight, news of a Kardashian cover and pictorial for Playboy has just been revealed.

Not only did she get a ten page pictorial, she also made the cover.

Heidi Montag's Playboy pictorial is coming soon to a newsstand near you.

Nope, Heidi Montag's Playboy pictorial isn't going to work in her favor, career wise anyway.

Texas A & M University provides an extensive pictorial research section on various tomato diseases on their website.

This site, which labels itself as where all the bad shirts go, will provide you with a pictorial preview of each offensive tee they carry, while also giving you adequate color and sizing options.

You can either follow pictorial directions or download videos.

On the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons website, there is a helpful pictorial guideline to performing a variety of stretches for every part of the body, including the shoulders, lower back, hips, knees, calves, and hamstrings.

The pictorial was expanded for this year's issue, based on the popularity of the spread in last year's video game issue.

Pictorial Genealogy is a company that sells genealogy charts featuring photographs, and they have a very nice example of a descendant chart.

Electric Scotland offers a pictorial tour through the beautiful countryside and cities, giving children an up close and personal view of the country.

This is why pictorial and model-based activities can make a tremendous amount of difference when it comes to math.

Golden Gate National Recreational Area offers up-to-date news on Alcatraz Island, plus pictorial tours of its military, prison and Indian occupation years.

Members post their projects either as written, pictorial or video instructions and anyone can view them.

A gorgeous pictorial tat can speak for itself.

This pictorial language has characters that are intricate, and each stands for a whole word in the English language.

In parts of Asia, tattoos using different colored dyes were being seen, as well as more detailed pictorial tattoos using black inks.

The tattoos will generally consist of one or more symbols intertwined into one graphic pictorial.

Kat fans will be delighted to learn that she is currently working on a pictorial timeline of her art, hand-in-hand with Harper Collins publishing.

This pictorial representation of a stylized eye conveys protection and was used on the tomb of kings to impart protection in the afterlife.

This innovative Vinyasa card series is a helpful pictorial of many asanas used in Vinyasa flow.

The following websites offer pictorial guides to sport stretches.

A pictorial history of Girl Scout Uniforms is available on the official website of the Girl Scouts of the USA.

As many as one hundred and thirty-seven painters and pictorial students passed through his school, established towards 1440, which became famous all over Italy.

This connexion of Andrea with the pictorial rival of Squarcione is generally assigned as the reason why the latter became alienated from the son of his adoption, and always afterwards hostile to him.

There is evidence that the use in Crete of both linear and pictorial signs existed in the Early Minoan period, contemporary with the first Egyptian dynasties.

His power of rapid and exhaustive observation and of accurate pictorial reproduction was phenomenal.

Believing that the pendulum had overshot its swing from conventional classicality towards pictorial realism, he turned from the " fleshy " school towards the Greek, while realizing the artistic necessity for modern feeling.

In the deepest part of the excavations, however, inscribed clay tablets and fragments of stone vases are still found, though the cuneiform characters upon them are of a very archaic type, and sometimes even retain their primitive pictorial forms.

The race who first developed it spoke an agglutinative language, and to them was due the invention of the pictorial hieroglyphs which became the running-hand or cuneiform characters of later days, as well as the foundation of the chief cities of the country and the elements of its civilization.

The art was one of imperfect evolution, but for thirteen centuries it was the only living pictorial art in the world, and the Chinese deserve the honor of having created landscape painting.

The books illustrated by the men of this school were mainly collections of useful information, guide-books, romances and historical and religious compilations; but much of the best of their work is to be found in the collections of pictorial designs, very often taken from Chinese sources, which were produced for the use of workers in lacquer, pottery and similar crafts.

The pillars, architraves, ceilings, panels, and almost every available part of the structure, are covered with arabesques and sculptured figures of dragons, lions, tigers, birds, flowers, and even pictorial compositions with landscapes and figures, deeply carved in solid or open workthe wood sometimes plain, sometimes overlaid with pigment and gilding, as in the panelled ceiling of the chapel of Iyeyasu in Tokyo.

The plate thus obtained shows accidental clouding, or massing of dark tones, and these patches are taken as the basis of a pictorial design to which final character is given by inlaying with gold and silver, and by kata-kiri sculpture.

So perfectly does the modern Japanese embroiderer elaborate his scheme of values that all the essential elements of pictorial effects chiaroscuro, aerial perspective and atmosphere are present in his work.