iconography

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.

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[Late Latin conographia, description, verbal sketch, from Medieval Greek eikonographi : eikono-, icono- + -graphi, -graphy.]

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ico·nogra·pher n.

i·cono·graphic (-kn-grfk), i·cono·graphi·cal adj.

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Noun

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iconography - 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"