iconography

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: i=co=nog=ra=phy

CIDE DICTIONARY

iconography, n. [Gr. a sketch or description; e'ikw`n an image + of describe: cf. F. iconographie.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  The study of representative art in general.  [1913 Webster]

Christian iconography, the study of the representations in art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels, saints, virtues, vices, etc.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

iconography, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the illustration of a subject by drawings or figures.
2 a the study of portraits, esp. of an individual. b the study of artistic images or symbols.
3 a treatise on pictures or statuary.
4 a book whose essence is pictures.

Derivative

iconographer n. iconographic adj. iconographical adj. iconographically adv.

Etymology

Gk eikonographia sketch (as ICONO- + -GRAPHY)

THESAURUS

iconography

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

ROGET THESAURUS

iconography

Representation

N representation, representment, imitation, illustration, delineation, depictment, imagery, portraiture, iconography, design, designing, art, fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinematography, radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy, personation, personification, impersonation, drama, picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, X-ray photo, movie film, movie, tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV, copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, represent, representing, representative, illustrative, represented, imitative, figurative, iconic, like, graphic, cinquecento quattrocento, trecento.