Staffage

• abstract: In painting, staffage, pronounced "staffarge" as in French ([stæffaʒ]), are 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".

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