Iconography

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Pictorial illustration of a subject.
  • noun. The collected representations illustrating a subject.
  • noun. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized work of art.
  • noun. A treatise or book dealing with iconography.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. That branch of knowledge which relates to the representation of persons or objects by means of images or statues, busts, paintings, drawings, engravings on gems or metals, and the like.
  • noun. The art of producing likenesses, portraits, or graphic representations; the art of illustration.
  • noun. Pictorial representation in general; an illustrative figure or collection of figures.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.
  • noun. The study of representative art in general.
  • noun. the study of the representations in art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels, saints, virtues, vices, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject
  • Word Usage
    "The word iconography comes from the Greek word εἰκονογραφία; in modern usage iconography is a de - scription and/or interpretation of the content of works of art and therefore its history belongs to the history of human ideas."
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    icon  ikon  image  picture  
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