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TBotNS - Pinakotheken solved!
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* Fr Kipling Cooper <kcooper at cuic.ca> [07 Nov 02 07:31]:
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Book I, chapter v "and the pinakotheken, with their great hallway topped with a vaulted roof of window-pirced brick."
After much digging it would seem that pinakothek=picture 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 pictures
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 had
not effaced, which seems to point to fresco painting, the fact that there is
no trace of any preparation for stucco on the walls rather shows that the
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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