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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats