The art or technique of creating images by engraving or incising designs into waxed surfaces, often for printmaking.
From Greek 'keros' (wax) combined with 'graphia' (writing/description/process of making). The term entered English in the 19th century as art historians catalogued historical printmaking techniques.
Cerography connects to ancient wax seals used for legal documents, medieval manuscript illumination, and Renaissance printmaking—it's a bridge technique showing how artists transformed a necessity (securing documents with wax seals) into a sophisticated artistic medium.
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