scenography

Latin scenographia, equivalent to scene +‎ -ography.

• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

scenography (countable and uncountable, plural scenographies)

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.
   • 1705, Thomas Greenhill, Νεκροκηδεία or The Art of Embalming:

     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.

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