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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne