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Definition of 'iconography'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) iconography
symbolic representation, esp. the conventional meanings attached to an image.

2.  iconography
subject matter in the visual arts, esp. with reference to the conventions of treating a subject in artistic representation.

3.  iconography
the study or analysis of subject matter and its meaning in the visual arts; iconology.

4.  iconography
a representation or group of representations of a person, place, or thing.

Etymology: (1620–30; < ML < Gk)

Definition of 'iconography'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) iconography
the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject
"religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot"

Definition of 'iconography'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) iconography
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

2. (noun) iconography
the study of representative art in general

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