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i·co·nol·o·gy  (k-nl-j)
n.
The branch of art history that deals with the description, analysis, and interpretation of icons or iconic representations.
i·cono·logi·cal (-kn-lj-kl) adj.
ico·nolo·gist n.
iconology
1. the study of images.
2. iconography. — iconologist, n. — iconological, adj.
See also: Images
the description, history, and analysis of symbolic art or artistic symbolism, especially that of the late medieval and Renaissance periods. Also called iconography. — iconologist, n. — iconological, adj.
See also: Art
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Noun1.iconology - the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms)
art history - the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture


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What is curious, however, is that although the iconological mining of Rauschenberg's work vastly dominates the literature, some participants in this canonizing enterprise believe themselves to be in the minority.
Robert Rauschenberg's Combines: two views by Dunham, Carroll / Artforum International
The public" can include a third-grade class studying the Civil War, an art history course at a neighboring secondary school where students are looking in sophisticated ways at iconological issues in Italian sixteenth-century painting, or an Elderhostel group studying Jane Austen.
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Yet while substantial evaluation of the iconological approach makes up Chapter Two, it is only as a curious sort of postscript that Burke presents a variety of recent theoretical avenues available to historians (14, 145).
Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence. (Reviews) by Waddy, Helena / Journal of Social History
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