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Definition of Iconography
1. Noun. The images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject. "The propagandistic iconography of a despot"
Definition of Iconography
1. n. 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.
Definition of Iconography
1. Noun. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Iconography
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Medical Definition of Iconography
1. 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. Origin: Gr. A sketch or description; an image + of describe: cf. F. Iconographie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Iconography
Literary usage of Iconography
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The object of iconography is to give the history of these various representations,
... Special articles dealing with subjects of Christian iconography, ..."
2. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America by Bibliographical Society of America (1919)
"STOKES'S iconography.—It is doubtful whether anyone, within the limits of ...
The third volume of his "iconography of Manhattan Island," issued in April, ..."
3. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1901)
"From " The iconography of the Battery and Castle Garden. ... It is an important
little» picture in the iconography of New York City, for it is the only one ..."
4. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1846)
"iconography, carried to excess, and addressed to the imaginations of an ignorant,
an idle, and a vicious populace, naturally leads to idolatry. ..."
5. Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation by Edith Balas (1995)
"... XI: The iconography of the Medici Chapel as an Expression of Neoplatonic
Philosophy The New Sacristy, in my view, was an artistic vehicle whereby ..."
6. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"iconography. The leading and most essential citation is that of the author by
whom and the work in which a plant is named and described, and also the work ..."
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