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PINACOTHECA

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 616 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PINACOTHECA , a picture-See also:

gallery (Gr. a1-cvaKoO?7K17, from 7rivaE, a tablet or picture). The name is especially given to the See also:building containing pictures which formed the See also:left wing of the See also:Propylaea on the See also:Acropolis at See also:Athens. Though See also:Pausanias (Bk. II., xxii. 6) speaks of the pictures " which See also:time had not effaced," which seems to point to See also:fresco See also:painting, the fact that there is no trace of any preparation for See also:stucco on the walls rather shows that the paintings were easel pictures (J. G. Frazer, Pausanias's Description of See also:Greece, 1898, ii. 252). The See also:Romans adopted the See also:term for the See also:room in a private See also:house containing pictures, statues, and other See also:works of See also:art. It is used for a public gallery on the See also:continent of See also:Europe, as at See also:Bologna and See also:Turin. At See also:Munich there are two galleries known as the Old and New Pinakothek.

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