Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A word occurring as a part of a marginal note on a picture, noting who painted it: as, Rubens pinxit, ‘Rubens painted (this).’ Abbreviated pinx. and pxt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A word appended to the artist's name or initials on a painting, or engraved copy of a painting.
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Examples
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He drew portraits of her — they are extant still — with straight noses and enormous eyes, and ‘Arthur Pendennis delineavit et pinxit’ gallantly written underneath.
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I was impressed but not surprised to read: "P. Lely _pinxit."
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I was impressed but not surprised to read: "P. Lely _pinxit."
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'_Non est philosophus nisi fingit et pinxit_,' said the great pioneer.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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So much I learn from Montorio, who further informs me that the ubiquitous Saint Peter preached here on his way to Rome, and converted the people to Christianity; and that the town can boast of three authentic portraits of the Mother of God painted by Saint Luke ( "Lukas me pinxit").
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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The very strangeness of the fable set forth perhaps engaged the child's fancy; or the benignant mildness of the countenances, so unlike the eager individual faces of the earlier artist; for he returned again and again to gaze unweariedly on the inhabitants of that tranquil grassy world, studying every inch of the walls and with much awe and fruitless speculation deciphering on the hem of a floating drapery the inscription: Bernardinus Lovinus pinxit.
The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899
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On the foot of the pedestal was the painter's name, "BATTONI pinxit, Romæ, 1750."
The Lost Stradivarius John Meade Falkner 1895
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Ad Vivum pinxit et fecit the most desperate Attempts; for, like others of his Cast, he had murder'd many a Hero only to get into his Cloaths.
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"Masolinus de Florentia pinxit" decides their authorship.
New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866
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All these lovely things are in the 'Purification,' which is dated _Bernardinus Lovinus pinxit_, MDXXV.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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