单词 | scene-painter |
释义 | scene-paintern. A person who paints scenes or scenery for the theatre, esp. according to the rules of stage perspective. Also figurative. Cf. scene painting n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > person in charge of scenery > scene-painter scene-painter1706 scenist1790 scenic artist1819 1706 B. Buckeridge Ess. Eng. School in J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting 419 He was in his latter days Scene-Painter to the Play-House in Covent-Garden. 1824 R. Humphreys Mem. J. Decastro 76 He calls for his scene-painter, composer, master-carpenter, property-man. 1858 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) at Churriguresque Style, The architects above named..exercised so important an influence on art in Spain, as to give their name to a style, for following which themselves and their imitators were called gerigoncistas or jargonists, tramoyistas or scene-painters, and churrigueristas. 1937 Life 1 Nov. 114/3 (caption) Once a theatrical scene-painter in Manhattan, he later recalled that Mrs. Farnol ‘often would come to bring me baskets with chicken and all sorts of delightful little delicacies’. 2004 Independent 19 June i. 8/2 Others facing an uncertain future include administrative and behind-the-scenes staff such as scene-painters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1706 |
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