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Iconography - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Iconography : (noun)
1: the images and symbolic representations that are
traditionally associated with a person or a subject;
"religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography
of a despot"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Iconography : \I`co*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? a sketch or
description; e'ikw`n an image _ ? to describe: cf. F.
iconographie.]
1. The art or representation by pictures or images; the
description or study of portraiture or representation, as
of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.
2. The study of representative art in general.
Christian iconography, the study of the representations in
art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels,
saints, virtues, vices, etc.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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