pictura

plural picturae

1. The picture or image component of something, such as an emblem or poem, that contains a combination of imagery and text or symbols.

   Clearly, the relationship between pictura and motto became more literal in this emblem.

   2010, Simon McKeown, The International Emblem: From Incunabula to the Internet, →ISBN, page 183

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   It is customary to distinguish three components in an emblem: the pictura or symbolic image or picture, accompanied by the preceding inscriptio or motto and the subsequent subscriptio, usually an explication in verse of the idea expressed in combination of the inscriptio and the pictura.

   2004, Steven Paul Scher, Walter Bernhart, Werner Wolf, Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004), →ISBN, pages 57–58

   A poem may contain things which are significant in spite of the fact that the events it describes are a mere pictura of something which never happened.

   2014, Durant Waite Robertson, Essays in Medieval Culture, →ISBN, page 64

2. biologyThe pattern of coloration.