Pictorius
Pictorius is the Latin for "painter". It is also a Latinized name used by several authors of the Renaissance era. *Georg Pictorius *Josua Maaler Josua Maaler (also ''Maler, Mahler'', Latinized ''Pictorius''; 1529–1599) was a Swiss pastor and lexicographer. He was the author of the first dictionary which focussed exclusively on the German language, published in Zürich as ''Die Teü ...

Georg Pictorius
Georg Pictorius of Villingen (c. 1500 – 1569) was a physician and an author of the German Renaissance. He became active as a physician from 1540 in Ensisheim. In his book on magic, he condemns witchcraft, endorsing the witch-trials of his time: "if the witches are not burned, the number of these furies swells up in such an immense sea that no one could live safe from their spells and charms." (Midelfort p. 59) His gynecological ''Frauenzimmer'' gives cosmetic advice for women, from the suppression of unpleasant scents to the shaping of their bosom (Walter, p. 372f.) works: *1532 Theologia mythologica *''Isagoge'', the fourth book in the collection published as the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa *1555 '' Lasz Büchlin'', on bloodletting *1560 '' Baderbüchlin'', on balneotherapy *''Von den Gattungen der Ceremonialmagie (Goetie)'' (Eng. ''Of the Kinds of Ceremonial Magic (Goetia)''), ed. ''Das Kloster'' (1846) See also *Johann Weyer Joh ...
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Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, nar ...
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