scenography
nounEtymology From Latin scenographia, equivalent to scene + -ography.
1
The design of theatrical sets.
2
The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane.
3
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:
- Related terms
- scenographer, scenographic