historiated

adj

1. Adorned with decorative pictures that tell a story.

   “It is difficult to imagine that Bernard of Clairvaux was gullible enough to accept dozens of historiated windows, grisaille fields of griffins, mosaic pavements, carved acanthus capitals, inhabited vine columns, and golden altarware on the strength of the justifications offered by a single window, one tympanum, and Suger's libelli”

   “In Norwich Cathedral there are over 1000 stone roof bosses. Of these about 700 are historiated, that is they either tell a story in themselves or are part of a story told in a sequence of bosses.”

   “The linkage of northern and southern Christian concerns is evident in the oldest surviving great golden and gemmed altar frontal with historiated narratives in Sant'Ambrogio in Milan, commissioned between 824 and 859 in an area fairly recently absorbed into Carolingian control (Fig. 28).”

   “The splendid pictorial collection of nearly two thousand miniatures illuminating the historiated codices of the Cantigas de Santa Maria provides the most reliable evidence for the study of Castilian society in the second half othe thirteenth century.”