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iconography

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Etymology

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    From icono- + -graphy.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˌaɪkəˈnɒɡɹəfi/
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

    Noun

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    iconography (countable and uncountable, plural iconographies)

    1. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.
      • 1975 May 4, Dale Harris, “Merce Cunningham”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 26 April 2024:
        The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.
    2. The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.
      the iconography of the ancients
    3. The study of representative art in general.

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