Meaning of ICONOGRAPHY
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| | Definition: | |  Iconography
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \I`co*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? a sketch or
description; e'ikw`n an image + ? to describe: cf. F.
iconographie.]
1. The art or representation by pictures or images; the
description or study of portraiture or representation, as
of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.
2. The study of representative art in general.
{Christian iconography}, the study of the representations in
art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels,
saints, virtues, vices, etc.
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| | Definition: | | an important component of cognitive archaeology, this involves the study of artistic representations which usually have an overt religious or ceremonial significance; e.g. individual deities may be distinguished, each with a special characteristic, such as corn with the corn god, or the sun with a sun goddess etc. |
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| | Related Terms: | | alphabet, art, blueprint, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, drama, drawing, exemplification, figuration, hieroglyphic, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, musical notation, notation, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printing, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, score, script, syllabary, symbol, tablature, writing |
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