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scenography en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin scenographia, equivalent to scene + -ography.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The design of theatrical sets.
2. (countable, uncountable) The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane.
3. (countable, uncountable) A representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye.
   • The Walls or Partitions are represented by the Letters C. C. C. but these are all more exactly seen in the Scenography, in which D. and E. shows two Caves with their Walls turn’d over with Arches. 1705, Thomas Greenhill, Νεκροκηδεία or The Art of Embalming:

Forms

Relateds

scenographic · scenographer

Translations (15)

ca escenografia (design of theatrical sets) · ru сценогра́фия (art or act of representation in perspective) · nb scenografi (design of theatrical sets) · fi perspektiivipiirustus (art or act of representation in perspective) · ru сценогра́фия (representation in perspective) · fi perspektiivipiirustus (representation in perspective) · nn scenografi (design of theatrical sets) · fi lavastus (design of theatrical sets) · sv scenografi (art or act of representation in perspective) · sv scenografi (design of theatrical sets) · ru сценогра́фия (design of theatrical sets) · pt cenografia (design of theatrical sets) · it scenografia (design of theatrical sets) · fr scénographie (design of theatrical sets) · gl escenografía (design of theatrical sets)