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  • In the ducal library's Indice Vecchio, there is an entry for Petrus burgensis pictor (I.V. #286), a treatise on the Five Regular Bodies.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Solers quilibet artifex instrumenta sua diligentissime curat, penicellos pictor; malleos incudesque faber ferrarius; miles equos, arma venator, auceps aves, et canes, Cytharam Cytharaedus,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Fabius pictor: amor ipse conjunxit populos, &c. 5890.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • More than four hundred years from the day he packed up his things and headed for Rome from the small Lombardy town in which he grew up, Michelangelo Merisi of Caravaggio (1571-1610) is still, to borrow the wording of one of his contracts, 'top painter in the City' (egregius in Urbe pictor).

    The Real Caravaggio Rowland, Ingrid D. 1999

  • That means that there were the plans and sections and working drawings to be copied for the architect, and measurements and calculations by the thousand to be made -- _a school of architecture_, in short: and besides that, what Roger de Wendover was in the scriptorium, that Walter of Colchester, _pictor et sculptor incomparabilis_, was in the painting room.

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • 'There was the pictor of Saynte Saviour that had stood in Barmsey Abbey many yeres in Southwarke takyn down,' a diarist writes at the time.

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

  • He told the audience about Aldus, who was the first publisher to start cheap books, who dropped abbreviations and had his type cut by Francia pictor et aurifex, who was said to have taken it from Petrarch's handwriting.

    Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877

  • On the base he wrote these words in the marble: _Andreas Cionis pictor florentinus oratorii archimagister extitit hujus, MCCCLIX_.

    The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) Giorgio Vasari 1542

  • The image is 'The Last Judgment: the Stars Fall and Everything Is Turned Upside Down' pictor ignotus, 15th-century Italian School.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • The image is 'The Last Judgment: the Stars Fall and Everything Is Turned Upside Down' pictor ignotus, 15th-century Italian School.

    Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics (2009) Adam Roberts 2010

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