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i·co·nog·ra·phy

 (ī′kə-nŏg′rə-fē)
n. pl. i·co·nog·ra·phies
1.
a. Pictorial illustration of a subject.
b. The collected representations illustrating a subject.
2. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized work of art.
3. A treatise or book dealing with iconography.

[Late Latin īconographia, description, verbal sketch, from Medieval Greek eikonographiā : eikono-, icono- + -graphiā, -graphy.]

i′co·nog′ra·pher n.
i·con′o·graph′ic (ī-kŏn′ə-grăf′ĭk), i·con′o·graph′i·cal adj.
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Translations

iconographer

[ˌaɪkɒˈnɒgrəfəʳ] Niconógrafo/a m/f
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References in periodicals archive
At 10 a.m., apprentice iconographer Georgia Briggs, along with graphic designer Andrew Ritchey, will give a talk called "Icon Reading 101: The Visual Language of Holy Images." This talk will focus on symbols and other conventions that are typically seen in icons.
This is an introduction to the liturgical art of the Christian East by iconographer Phil Zimmerman.
Perhaps the best visual image we have for this comes from the Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev.
Whereas a calligrapher is a crafter of letters, an iconographer is the crafter of images.
And within the pealing call of the bells at St Paul's Church, Rock Ferry, lives an iconographer of the modern age.
After such an experience, the iconographer may illuminate the icon and prepare it for contemplation, offering the beholders a grain of the Taboric light, a gate to the undying light of eternity.
The Russian wording was checked by Ellis Hovell Minns, an archaeologist and Slavonic iconographer who was the president of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Consequently, an iconographer interprets the event of the resurrected life not in an individualistic way; rather, he or she paints icons with a brush tuned to the vibration of the earthquake that raises the dead and does away with hell.
This is what inspired Nick Markell, a Minnesota iconographer who has been painting--or writing, as the term has it--icons for thirty-two years.
We must act to ensure that those in our church and our society who feel marginalised and unwanted have a forum where they can articulate their particular concerns and describe the realities of life for their families in Ireland today - a forum where they can speak freely, knowing that they will be heard with compassion and respect." The World Meeting of Families delegation will be led by Archbishop Martin and includes Fr Tim Bartlett, secretary general of the group, and the iconographer Mihai Cucu.
When asked to describe his vocation, Latimore replied that his favorite translation of iconographer is "depicter of forms taken from life." This became his task when approached to create an icon for the Franciscan (Order of Friars Minor) novitiate.
Explaining why he found himself exploring the medieval art of both East and West, one such iconographer, Jonathan Pageau, says that it struck him as the only way to escape "the irony, the fragmentation, and the detachments flooding all cultural forms."
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