historiated
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- adjective
- /hɪˈstɔːriˌeɪtɪd/
- Specialized
- Each page of the book featured historiated letters, rich in detail, that invited readers to explore the art and tales within.
- historiated initials
Examples
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The images of standing figures that follow also recall the historiated incipit initials found so often in twelfth-century manuscripts (Figs. 2, 3).
Academic text (1999) -
He stands beside the text and apart from it, participating in it not as a historiated initial but as a sealing effigy appended to it.
Academic text (1999) -
The relationship between artist and patron comes into sharper focus with an examination of the Magliabechiano Vita's historiated initial.
Academic text (2008) -
As historiated initials introducing the text, they consequently distinguish themselves from Vierzon's independent abbot figures.
Academic text (1999) -
In the minds of many critics, such a "historiated portrait" would rank between portraiture and history painting, near the top of the hierarchy of genres, as it was understood to require skills associated with both types of painting.
Academic text (2007) -
They appear not as historiated initials but instead as effigies positioned beside the text with no visual ligature connecting the two.
Academic text (1999) -
More than a historiated portrait, with its depiction of the death of Louis XV in its trompe l'oeil frieze, Adlade de France actually encompasses a Neoclassical history painting.
Academic text (2007) -
The ancient manuscript was beautifully adorned with historiated initials that depicted scenes from well-known biblical stories.
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In the exhibition, visitors admired the historiated artwork that elegantly blended narrative and illustration in the margins of historical texts.
Synonyms
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Shown in a picture or painting
Antonyms
How Decorated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Historiated comes from the old word historia, the same root as history, which means 'story'. So a historiated page is decorated with pictures that tell a story.