'diorama' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a three-dimensional model or miniature scene, usually depicting a historical or natural setting. For example: "In the museum, visitors were captivated by the spectacular diorama of an ancient Mayan city."
The 15 March auction will also feature diorama contents, tapestries, furniture and books.
Instead, the visitor moves into a huge room brimming with cold-war imagery: China's accomplishments in space, its Olympic successes and a diorama of military hardware with a video display of marching troops.Such ossified official thinking contrasts with a lively debate among Chinese intellectuals about where the country should be heading.
Pride of place goes to a diorama showing former serfs merrily chucking "feudal documents" into the fire.But just in case, back in Lhasa, armed police are still patrolling the streets after an outbreak of rioting in March last year.
The Gray and Blue Naval Museum contains a diorama of the siege of Vicksburg and the world's largest collection of Civil War gunboat models.
Panoramas might be compared to Cinerama films and enjoyed as a stimulating optical entertainment, along with cyclorama drums (large pictorial representations encircling the spectator), trompe l'oeil diorama peep shows, and the show box, for which Thomas Gainsborough painted glass transparencies.
True dioramas, used for peep shows and the like, probably originated before the 19th century; but credit for the development of the diorama is usually given to Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, a French scenic painter, physicist, and inventor of the daguerreotype, who, with his coworker Charles-Marie Bouton, in 1822 opened an exhibition in Paris that he called the Diorama.
Among the many popular exhibits are a diorama of the Great Fire of London in 1666 and the lord mayor's state coach, dating to 1757.
"I didn't really intend to repopulate the village," she told me, as we sat in front of a diorama of a dozen or so of her figures in the village hall.
The highlight of the exhibition is a diorama and 360-degree mural of a battle in which Egyptian forces overtook Israeli troops near the Suez Canal.
COMPUTER NOISES! are kind of cool but what's missing is a slightly unhinged man, a diorama of the Appomattox battlefield and several thousand 00 gauge die-cast miniatures representing the fortunes of the warring factions.
Next summer, visitors will be able to look up their number and find their hair portraits in a "giant diorama" at Summerhall.
