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Meaning of 'iconography' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Iconography [ 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.
- The study of representative art in general.

Meaning of 'iconography' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . iconography [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject
Example in sentence:
  • religious iconography;
  • the propagandistic iconography of a despot

Nearby Words:

icon iconical iconism iconize iconoclasm iconoclast iconoclastic iconodule iconodulist iconographer

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