Associations to the word «Iconography»

Wiktionary

ICONOGRAPHY, noun. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.
ICONOGRAPHY, noun. The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.
ICONOGRAPHY, noun. The study of representative art in general.

Dictionary definition

ICONOGRAPHY, noun. The images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject; "religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King