Associations to the word «Iconology»

Wiktionary

ICONOLOGY, noun. The study of icons in art or art history.

Dictionary definition

ICONOLOGY, noun. The branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms).

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky