Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pinacotheca

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PINACOTHE'CA (πινακοθήκη). A picture gallery; an apartment, usually comprised in the houses of the wealthy Greeks, and of the Romans, after they had acquired from them a taste for the arts. Vitruv. i. 2. 7. Id. vi. 3. 8. Plin. H. N. xxxv. 2.