Usage examples (7)

• In ancient Greece and Rome, a pinacotheca was a picture gallery.
• The pinacotheca of this building was a complete musaeum of all the curiosities of art and nature; and there were public schools for all the sciences.
• Landscape, on the other hand, illustrated nothing, represented no important event deserving of record, and was thus totally without significance in a Grecian temple or...
• But Aulus began to walk with long steps over the mosaic of the pinacotheca.