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A liar by trade, paid to make flat surfaces lie convincingly about depth.
means A person who applies paint, whether creating pictures as an artist or coating walls and surfaces as a tradesperson.
from From Old French 'peintor,' from Latin 'pictor' (a painter), which comes from 'pingere,' to paint or embroider. That same root quietly fans out into 'picture,' 'pigment,' and 'depict' — all descendants of the act of putting color onto something. There's also a separate, unrelated 'painter' meaning a rope used to tie up a boat; that one is of murkier origin, possibly from Old French 'pentoir,' a hanging cord, and has nothing to do with paint at all.
Lead poisonCaravaggio and Goya may have been mad from paint
Tiny museumVermeer left only 34 known paintings
Cave originalsPainters worked walls 40,000 years before canvas
Blue goldUltramarine once cost more than gold by weight
Spit polishRestorers clean masterpieces with saliva and cotton swabs