Limn:
to draw or paint something:
There was no painter present to limn the scene.
Leonardo da Vinci limned in his notebooks painstaking studies that explored the intricacies of human anatomy.
[Cambridge Dictionary]
Noted in “And Augustine Wept,” Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish:
In fact, Leo started his religious life as a member of the Order of Saint Augustine, following the theologian who famously limned the tragedy of a Christian man in a fallen world, and understood the awful necessity in rare cases for collective violence. (Serendipitously, Leo was even visiting Augustine’s original church this week.)
