sciagraphy

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There is a pretty story of two lovers which is sometimes told as the origin of art; at all events, I may tell it here as the origin of sciagraphy.

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  1. The act or art of delineating shadows correctly in drawing; the art of sketching objects with correct shading.
  2. In architecture, a geometrical profile or section of a building to exhibit its interior structure; a sciagraph.
  3. In astronomy, the art of finding the hour of the day or night by the shadows of objects caused by the sun, moon, or stars; the art of dialing. Also sciography.
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  • When we come to study light in the open air we get into another region, and have to deal with it accordingly, and yet we shall find that our sciagraphy will be a help to us even in this bewilderment; for it will explain in a manner the innumerable shapes of sun-shadows that we observe out of doors among hills and dales, showing up their forms and structure; its play in the woods and gardens, and its value among buildings, showing all their juttings and abuttings, recesses, doorways, and all the other architectural details. —  The Theory and Practice of Perspective
  • There is a pretty story of two lovers which is sometimes told as the origin of art; at all events, I may tell it here as the origin of sciagraphy. —  The Theory and Practice of Perspective
 

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  1. from New Latin sciagraphia (the title of a book by F. Büthner, 1650), from Greek σκιαγραφία, painting in light and shadow, from σκιαγράφος, painting shadows, from σκιά, shade, shadow, + -γραφία, from γράφειν, write.
 

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