The phrase "coherent picture" refers to a clear and logical understanding or representation of something. It means that all the information or parts fit together smoothly, making sense and forming a complete and understandable whole. Full definition
As the sciences have developed, any effort to derive a unified coherent picture from them has also been abandoned. (religion-online.org)
The debris coverage may be one of the missing links to creating a more coherent picture of glacial behavior throughout all mountains. (thaindian.com)
It is one thing to appreciate art and artists from places as disparate as Classical Rome and Greece, Renaissance Italy and Flanders, and early 20th Century Paris; it is quite another to attempt to put together coherent pictures in which all of these influences — and more - are in play.» (painters-table.com)