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i·co·nog·ra·phy  (k-ngr-f)
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 conographia, description, verbal sketch, from Medieval Greek eikonographi : eikono-, icono- + -graphi, -graphy.]

ico·nogra·pher n.
i·cono·graphic (-kn-grfk), i·cono·graphi·cal adj.

iconography [ˌaɪkɒˈnɒgrəfɪ]
n pl -phies
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms)
a.  the symbols used in a work of art or art movement
b.  the conventional significance attached to such symbols
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a collection of pictures of a particular subject, such as Christ
3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) the representation of the subjects of icons or portraits, esp on coins
iconographer  n
iconographic  [aɪˌkɒnəˈgræfɪk], iconographical adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.iconographyiconography - the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject; "religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot"
ikon, picture, icon, image - a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
Translations
iconography [ˌaɪkɒˈnɒgrəfɪ] Niconografía f
iconography [ˌaɪkəˈnɒgrəfi] niconographie f
iconography [ˌaɪkɒˈnɒgrəfɪ] niconografia
iconography [ˌaɪkɒˈnɒgrəfɪ] niconografia


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Written by one of Europe's most well-known iconographers, The Mystical Language of Icons is a serious-minded text yet highly accessible to lay readers, historians, and anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of iconography as a form of Christian worship, expression and communication.
must be defined so disjunctively that it often isn't clear whether there is anything on which feminists, poststructuralists, social historians of art, queer theorists, iconographers, connoisseurs, and so on might agree such that their disagreements could offer a productive exchange.
In the eighth century, when the emperor of Constantinople outlawed icons and initiated a 55-year wave of destruction of sacred images in the East, many iconographers fled to Italy for safety and continued their work under the pope's protection.
 
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