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Iconography   Listen
noun
Iconography  n.  
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.





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"Iconography" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Iconography" :   image, picture, ikon, icon


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