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A picture doing a sentence's job, faster and with better posture.
means A picture, diagram, or example used to clarify, decorate, or support an explanation.
from From Latin 'illustrare' meaning to light up or make brilliant, built from 'lustrare,' to purify or brighten. The word first meant intellectual or spiritual illumination — explaining something by throwing light on it — before it narrowed to the literal pictures that light up a page.
- same root as
- illustrious shares the light-up origin story
- medieval version
- illuminated manuscripts, literally gold-leafed pictures
- printing boom
- Gutenberg made illustrations mass-producible, not royal-only
- modern twist
- stock art now illustrates ideas no one actually had