zograf

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von zograf im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A pen name of a number of Bulgarian iconographs and painters

A surname

Saint George the Zograf, an icon in Zograf Monastery|Zograf Monastery]]

Etymologie

() Historical Bulgarian and Serbian personal appellation, later used as pen name, which comes from the tradition of iconography in Eastern Orthodoxy. It comes from the occupation of iconograph or painter: zografos (zόγραφος) in Greek means "painter" (from zoe="life" and grafos="scribe").