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limner
limner. A word for a painter that has been used in various ways in different contexts. In the Middle Ages it was applied to manuscript illuminators, and from the 16th century it was used of painters of miniature portraits ( Nicholas Hilliard's treatise is called The Arte of Limning). In terms of American art, it denotes the anonymous and often itinerant painters, particularly portraitists, of the 17th and 18th centuries. Limners in this last sense are sometimes given invented names in the same manner in which the term ‘Master of’ is used in European painting—the Schuyler Limner, named after one of the families he portrayed, is an example.
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IAN CHILVERS. "limner." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "limner." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-limner.html IAN CHILVERS. "limner." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-limner.html |
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limner
limner. A word for a painter that has been used in various ways in different contexts. In the Middle Ages it was applied to manuscript illuminators, and from the 16th century it was used of painters of miniature portraits ( Nicholas Hilliard's treatise is called The Arte of Limning). In terms of American art, it denotes the anonymous and often itinerant painters, particularly portraitists, of the 17th and 18th centuries. Limners in this last sense are sometimes given invented names in the same manner in which the term ‘Master of’ is used in European painting—the Schuyler Limner, named after one of the families he portrayed, is an example.
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IAN CHILVERS. "limner." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "limner." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-limner.html IAN CHILVERS. "limner." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-limner.html |
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limner , the work of untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the English American colonies. Characteristic examples of their paintings show flat, awkward, often frontal figures in richly detailed costumes and landscape settings copied from European prints. The limner tradition extended well into the 19th cent. |
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"limner." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "limner." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-limner.html "limner." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-limner.html |
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limner •beamer, blasphemer, Colima, creamer, dreamer, emphysema, femur, Iwo Jima, Kagoshima, lemur, Lima, oedema (US edema), ottava rima, Pima, reamer, redeemer, schema, schemer, screamer, seamer, Selima, steamer, streamer, terza rima, Tsushima
•daydreamer
•dimmer, glimmer, limber, limner, shimmer, simmer, skimmer, slimmer, strimmer, swimmer, trimmer, zimmer
•enigma, sigma, stigma
•Wilma, Wilmer
•charisma • Gordimer • polymer
•ulema • anima • enema
•cinema, minima
•maxima • Bessemer • eczema
•dulcimer • Hiroshima
•Fatima, Latimer
•optima • Mortimer • anathema
•climber, Jemima, mimer, old-timer, part-timer, primer, rhymer, timer
•Oppenheimer • two-timer
•bomber, comma, momma, prommer
•dogma • dolma
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"limner." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "limner." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-limner.html "limner." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-limner.html |
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