pictorial
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They later became popular with holidaymakers after designs changed and pictorial postcards were introduced.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
His book also aligned the “Allegory” with “Jesuit pictorial theory” and argued that “Woman With a Pearl Necklace” expresses “Catholic or Jesuit pictorial didactics.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
As Stuart scholar Ellen Miles has written, the Lansdowne Portrait, as it is known, is “Stuart’s grandest American accomplishment,” a beautiful picture that “was quickly recognized as the best pictorial summation of Washington’s public role.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
In one of the earliest examples of his "pictorial" photography, Fading Away, Robinson combined five separate negatives to produce a scene showing a dying girl surrounded by her family.
From BBC ● May 10, 2025
In the end, we cannot be sure, because Vermeer’s approach to his subject proves as subtle as his pictorial treatment.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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