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i⋅co⋅nog⋅ra⋅phy

  [ahy-kuh-nog-ruh-fee]
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–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

Related forms:
i⋅con⋅o⋅graph  [ahy-kon-uh-graf, -grahf] , noun
i⋅co⋅nog⋅ra⋅pher, noun
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i·co·nog·ra·phy   (ī'kə-nŏg'rə-fē)   
n.   pl. i·co·nog·ra·phies

    1. Pictorial illustration of a subject.

    2. The collected representations illustrating a subject.

  2. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized work of art.

  3. A treatise or book dealing with iconography.


[Late Latin īconographia, description, verbal sketch, from Medieval Greek eikonographiā : eikono-, icono- + -graphiā, -graphy.]
i'co·nog'ra·pher n., i·con'o·graph'ic (ī-kŏn'ə-grāf'ĭk), i·con'o·graph'i·cal adj.
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