Meaning of iconography in English
Table of contents
Noun
iconographyEtymology
early 17th century (denoting a drawing or plan): from Greek eikonographia‘sketch, description’, from eikōn‘likeness’ + -graphia‘writing’Definitions
1. the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subjectExamples
- « religious iconography »
- « the propagandistic iconography of a despot »
Famous quotes
- « How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? » Polly Toynbee
- « Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. » James Wolcott