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Iconography   /ˌaɪkənˈɑgrəfi/   Listen
Iconography

noun
1.
The images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject.  "The propagandistic iconography of a despot"





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"Iconography" Quotes from Famous Books



... creed. It is not that science is free from legends, witchcraft, miracles, biographic boostings of quacks as heroes and saints, and of barren scoundrels as explorers and discoverers. On the contrary, the iconography and hagiology of Scientism are as copious as they are mostly squalid. But no student of science has yet been taught that specific gravity consists in the belief that Archimedes jumped out of his bath and ...
— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw
... in their temples, and surrounded by attendant figures,—I have ventured to add a somewhat fuller account of them and a summary of the general mythology of the sect, which may be useful to the archaeologist and the student of their iconography. ...
— On the Indian Sect of the Jainas • Johann George Buehler


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