pictorial

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“This frequent and deepened engagement with the pictorial arts must in part be credited to the challenge posed by Titian.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

The system then provides pictorial instructions to the humans on what to pick, where to place it and which truck to load.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

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

One of the more remarkable features of Velázquez’s stunning pictorial achievement is that he chose to paint Mariana’s portrait over one of many he had already executed of her husband.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

Our starting point in Chapter 5 is the invention of perspective painting, which involved the application of geometrical principles to pictorial representation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton