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Iconography

//ˌaɪkəˈnɒɡɹəfi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art. countable, uncountable

    "The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards."

  2. 2
    the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject wordnet
  3. 3
    The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons. countable, uncountable

    "the iconography of the ancients"

  4. 4
    The study of representative art in general. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From icono- + -graphy.

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