Pictorius is the Latin for "
painter
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 ai ...
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It is also a Latinized name used by several authors of the Renaissance era.
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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: ...
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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 ...
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