TBotNS - Pinakotheken solved!

Fr Kipling Cooper · 08 Nov 2002, 13:03 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: Fr Kipling Cooper <kcooper at cuic.ca>
Subject: Re: (urth) TBotNS - Pinakotheken solved!
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:03:49 -0500
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* Fr Kipling Cooper <kcooper at cuic.ca> [07 Nov 02 07:31]:
> Book I, chapter v "and the pinakotheken, with their great hallway topped
> with a vaulted roof of window-pirced brick."
>=20
> After much digging it would seem that pinakothek=3Dpicture gallery in
> German, but wouldn't the suffix denote the plural?  or perhaps 'gallery'
> as in chamber, and thus many chambers off a single great hallway?


   PINACOTHECA, a picture-gallery (Gr. lrLvaKoOI7K,7, from 7rLvaE, a tablet=
 or
    picture). The name is especially given to the building containing pictu=
res
     which formed the left wing of the Propylaea on the Acropolis at Athens.
    Though Pausanias (Bk. II., xxii. 6) speaks of the pictures which time h=
ad
   not effaced, which seems to point to fresco painting, the fact that ther=
e is
    no trace of any preparation for stucco on the walls rather shows that t=
he
      paintings were easel pictures (J. G. Frazer, Pausaniass Description of
      Greece, 1898, iI. 252). The Romans adopted the term for the room in a
    private house containing pictures, statues, and other works of art. It =
is
     used for a public gallery on the continent of Europe, as at Bologna and
        Turin. At Munich there are two galleries known as the Old and New
                                   Pinakothek.

AMAZING online dictionary site: http://www.onelook.com -  the above coming
from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Brittanica.  Thus defined, there could
indeed be many 'pinakotheken' off a dingle great hallway.
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Kipling+              =20


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