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scenographic

scenographic

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Visual design that makes a space feel dramatic, like in theatre
  • adjective
  • /ˌsiːnəˈɡræfɪk/
  • Specialized
: escenográfico
  • At the exhibition, the scenographic layout effectively guided visitors through the various art installations.
  • scenographic idea

Examples

  • Although his emphasis on the scenographic nature of urban space was reminiscent of Bramante, Fontana overlooked difficulties that moving to and through an interrupting colonnade could have caused.

    Academic text (2006)
  • In later loggias discussed below, one glimpses what Marvin Trachtenberg calls a scenographic strategy, in which a building controls the space around it, the positions of beholders, and the angles of their view.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The carefully considered scenographic components of the design can be seen more clearly in an enlarged detail.

    Academic text (1995)
  • At the same time, new sound methods made scenographic space highly variable in extension, so that it might expand or contract according to the narration.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The fragments attest to a pleasing scenographic composition that makes effective use of the arcades it initially inhabited.

    Academic text (2000)
  • As they have not survived, we may never know if any of these designs were by Guarini, but it is clear that the structure as completed by Bertola reflects Guarini's scenographic thinking.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The composition of this view shows Guarini's concern for optical and scenographic effects, an interest he discusses in several passages of his treatise on architecture.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Although the vista to the church was not opened, Poletti's classical buildings recalled Bramante's scenographic idea of a new architectural framework for the Borgo.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Bramante's idea of a scenographic urban setting for St. Peter's remained, however, on paper, the first proposal in a series to accumulate across the centuries for the rebuilding of the medieval Borgo area to accord with the classical grandeur of the new church.

    Academic text (2006)
  • The scenographic lighting created a dramatic atmosphere during the play's climactic scene.

Surface Forms

scenographic positive

Morphology

scenographic = scenography (semi-transparent) = sceno + graph + ic

The adjective is formed regularly from the specialized noun 'scenography,' but the base is technical and not likely to be familiar to an average learner.

Etymology

Scenographic comes from the Greek word skene meaning 'stage' or 'scene', plus the ending -graphic, which means 'related to drawing or image' and appears in words like photographic. So scenographic describes the visual design of a scene or space, making it look like a dramatic picture.