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STAFFAGE - In painting, staffage (French pronunciation: [stafa]) is the name for the human and animal figures depicted in a scene, especially a landscape, that ...
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Subordinate figures in a landscape picture |
Employees having time for painting accessories |
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Dec 7 2018 The Times - Cryptic |
Apr 23 2012 The Times - Concise |
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In painting, staffage (French pronunciation: [stafa]) is the name for the human and animal figures depicted in a scene, especially a landscape, that are not the primary subject matter of the work. Before the adoption of the word into the visual arts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Staffage in German could mean "accessories" or "decoration". The word can be used in two senses: as a general term for any figures in a work, even when they are, at least ostensibly, the main subject, and as a descriptive term for figures to whom no specific identity or story is attached, included merely for compositional or decorative reasons. In the latter sense, staffage are accessories to the scene, yet add life to the work; they provide depth to the painting and reinforce the main subject, as well as giving a clear scale to the rest of the composition. * During the Baroque, painters such as Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain commonly used staffage. Some landscape specialists had |