Definition of scenography in English:
scenography
noun siːˈnɒɡrəfisiˈnɑɡrəfi
mass noun1The design and painting of theatrical scenery.
Example sentencesExamples
- The exhibition will also showcase the work of other designers highlighting the modern trends in international scenography for the theatre.
- As well as offering courses in acting, the academy teaches scenography, stage management, and specialist technical matters.
- Every scene in a David Cronenberg film - particularly his set pieces - has a shape, and is meticulously based around a quite theatrical scenography.
- This exhibition of some seventy works looks at the full range of artistic Bardolatry, and also examines theatrical production and scenography.
- The 43-year-old Ferranti took his architecture degree from Paris in 1985, specialising in theatre and scenography in the Baroque era.
- 1.1 (in painting and drawing) the representation of objects in perspective.
Example sentencesExamples
- Within what is essentially an office building, Schultes has created sculptural scenography out of interstitial space.
- Another specialist in ephemera of this kind and scenography was Baccio del Bianco, whose extraordinary caricatures are an early form of the cartoon strip.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from French scénographie, or via Latin from Greek skēnographia 'scene-painting', from skēnē (see scene).