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i⋅co⋅nog⋅ra⋅phy

[ahy-kuh-nog-ruh-fee]
–noun, plural -phies.
1. symbolic representation, esp. the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
2. subject matter in the visual arts, esp. with reference to the conventions regarding the treatment of a subject in artistic representation.
3. the study or analysis of subject matter and its meaning in the visual arts; iconology.
4. a representation or a group of representations of a person, place, or thing, as a portrait or a collection of portraits.

Origin:
1620–30; < ML īconographia < Gk eikonographía. See icono-, -graphy


i⋅con⋅o⋅graph [ahy-kon-uh-graf, -grahf] , noun
i⋅co⋅nog⋅ra⋅pher, noun
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