pictūra ae, f PIC-, painting, the art of painting: ars ratioque picturae: Ut pictura poesis, H.
—A painting, picture: (in tabulā) inerat pictura haec, T.: pictura in tabulā, in textili, painting . . . embroidery: animum picturā pascit inani, unreal, V.
—Fig., in language, a painting, picture: Homeri.