iconography
n.
representation of ideas or meanings through visual images; study of such images
Iconography
Iconography is the branch of
art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images. The word iconography literally means "image writing", or painting, and comes from the
Greek εικον (image) and γραφειν (to write). A secondary meaning is the painting of
icons in the
Byzantine and
Orthodox Christian tradition. A third meaning lies in the field of
semiotics, see below.
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iconography
Noun
1. the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject; "religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot"
(hypernym) picture, image, icon, ikon
Iconography
(n.)
The study of representative art in general.
(n.)
The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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