Duccio and his contemporaries inherited early pictorial conventions that were maintained, in part, to tie their own works to the authority of tradition.

The 12th-century artists of the e-maki version devised a system of pictorial conventions that convey visually the emotional content of each scene.

All this conforms to a medieval pictorial convention emphasizing that Joseph was not the real father of Jesus.

The first group deals entirely with Chang's idiosyncratic adaptations of traditional Chinese pictorial conventions.

The pictorial conventions were devised in monasteries to transmit the teachings to initiates, who had to be empowered to see them.

It also combined Persian, European, Central Asian and Indian pictorial conventions to form one of the great turning points in Indian painting.

Drawing from the pictorial conventions of Claude Lorrain and the Hudson River School, they are romantic, painterly and painstakingly rendered.

The earliest portrayals of Louis already followed the pictorial conventions of the day in depicting the child king as the majestically royal incarnation of France.

But the show also demonstrates that stills are hybrids in which pictorial conventions of photography and movies are blended in differing proportions.

Later depictions of lesbians in British and American art may reflect like cultural mores, or merely borrow from formal pictorial conventions.