Zograf
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Etymology[edit]
Historical Macedonian, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian 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: Greek ζωγράφος (zográfos, “painter”), from ζωή (zoḯ, “life”) + -γράφος (-gráfos, “scribe”).
Proper noun[edit]
Zograf
- A surname. Famously born by a saint (George the Zograf, an icon in Zograf Monastery) and used as the pen name of a number of Bulgarian iconographs and painters.