Definitions for iconographyˌaɪ kəˈnɒg rə fi
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
i•co•nog•ra•phyˌaɪ kəˈnɒg rə fi(n.)(pl.)-phies.
symbolic representation, esp. the conventional meanings attached to an image.
Category: Fine Arts
subject matter in the visual arts, esp. with reference to the conventions of treating a subject in artistic representation.
Category: Fine Arts
the study or analysis of subject matter and its meaning in the visual arts; iconology.
Category: Fine Arts
a representation or group of representations of a person, place, or thing.
Category: Fine Arts
Origin of iconography:
1620–30; < ML < Gk
i•con`o•graph′i•cal•ly(adv.)
Princeton's WordNet
iconography(noun)
the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject
"religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot"
Wiktionary
iconography(Noun)
A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art
Webster Dictionary
Iconography(noun)
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
Iconography(noun)
the study of representative art in general
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