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limner
1. A painter; an artist
2. One who paints portraits.
3. One who illuminates books.
The Webster's Dictionary
words related to limner
art | painting
| drawing | treatment | artistry |
work of art | picture | artist | visual
artist | graphic artist | designer |
industrial artist | commercial artist | industrial
designer | craftsman | artisan |
aquarellist | icon painter | portrait painter
| portraitist | drawer | draughtsman |
sketcher | limner (Lit) | delineator |
illustrator | illuminator | master | old
master | modern master | master-mallion
See also: Originality; Imagination.Bloomsbury Thesaurus
limner
Old name for an artist, used in
15th- and 16th-c.The Thames & Hudson
Dictionary of Art Terms
limner
A word for a painter that has
been used in different ways according to time and place. In the Middle Ages
it was applied to manuscript illuminators, and from the 16th cent. it was
used of painters of miniature portraits (Nicholas Hilliard's treatise is
called The Arte of Limning). In American usage it denotes the anonymous and
often itinerant painters, particularly portraitists, of the 17th and 18th
cents. 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.Oxford Dictionary of Art, ©
Oxford University Press 1997
limn
tr.v. limned, limn·ing, (lmnng) limns
To describe.
To depict by painting or drawing.
[Middle English limnen, to illuminate (a manuscript), probably alteration (influenced by limnour, illustrator), of luminen from Old French luminer, from Latin lminre, to illuminate, adorn, from lmen, lmin-, light. See leuk- in Indo-European Roots.]
limner (lmnr) n.The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
limn
Pronunciation: 'lim
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): limned; limn·ing /'li-mi[ng], 'lim-ni[ng]/
Etymology: Middle English luminen, limnen to illuminate (a manuscript), from
Middle French enluminer, from Latin illuminare to illuminate
Date: 1592
1 : to draw or paint on a surface
2 : to outline in clear sharp detail : DELINEATE
3 : DESCRIBE
- limn·er /'li-m&r, 'lim-n&r/ noun
Merriam-Webster Online
artist
N. artist; painter, limner,
drawer, sketcher, designer, engraver; master, old master; draftsman,
draughtsman; copyist, dauber, hack; enamel, enameler, enamelist;
caricaturist.
historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter,
portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign
painter, coach painter; engraver; Apelles[obs]; sculptor, carver, chaser,
modeler, figuriste[obs], statuary; Phidias, Praxiteles; Royal Academician.
photographer, cinematographer, lensman, cameraman, camera technician, camera
buff; wildlife photographer.
Roget's Thesaurus