scenography
Americannoun
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the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
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scene painting (used especially with reference to ancient Greece).
noun
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the art of portraying objects or scenes in perspective
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scene painting, esp in ancient Greece
Other Word Forms
- scenographer noun
- scenographic adjective
- scenographical adjective
- scenographically adverb
Etymology
Origin of scenography
From the Greek word skēnographía, dating back to 1635–45. See scene, -o-, -graphy
Example Sentences
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An image of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is integral to the scenography of the collective AMP featuring Erica Jiaying Zhang.
From Los Angeles Times
Both men, Friedman continues, understand “the power of the image” and “have made themselves into caricatures through costume and scenography, the better to capture the popular imagination.”
From Salon
Each is a wide, skinny horizontal — just 4 feet high but 27½ feet wide — making the full 55-foot expanse into scenography that one instinctively reads from left to right.
From Los Angeles Times
On Saturday the creator and director of 2021's Netflix hit drama "Squid Game" Hwang Dong-hyuk participated in the show scenography.
From Reuters
Later, they start to tug at their T-shirts — costume design and scenography is by Camille Vallat — until they pull them over their heads like veils and eventually stretch them even higher to cover their faces entirely.
From New York Times
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