Definition of iconography in English:

iconography

nounPlural iconographies ˌʌɪkəˈnɒɡrəfiˌaɪkəˈnɑɡrəfi

1mass noun The visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these.
the conventional iconography of Christian art
Example sentencesExamples
- My study of the iconography has revealed 37 images from the twelfth century, 65 from the thirteenth century, then a mighty leap to 201 from the fourteenth century.
- Ever since, lions have been portrayed in art, myth and iconography as powerful symbols of solar strength, supremacy, glory, light and brilliance.
- The spearhead is unexpected, however, since spears, although associated in Bronze Age iconography with hunting and warfare, do not feature in depictions of sacrifice.
- The poses of seated figure and rooster and the relation between them distinctly recall the iconography of Peter's denial in early Christian and Carolingian images.
- The effectiveness of the statue was thus dependent in part on the visual suitability of its iconography and the quality of its form.
- But this belief, held by early military historians like Sir Charles Oman and J. E. Morris, was based on too literal and too limited an interpretation of medieval iconography such as the Bayeux Tapestry.
- Sunday Morning looks at the convergence of Islam and Latin culture in the religious iconography, the dress of the Byzantines, and the situation of women.
- Some of the earliest forms of such art were in church iconography, paintings, mosaics, frescos, and stained glass windows which decorated and instructed at the same time: the Bible of the poor.
- It is not only the iconography of Blake's work that conveys a dream of liberation.
- It has been demonstrated that the iconography of the Del Sarto altarpiece reflects Franciscan doctrine and artistic conventions.
1. 1.1 The visual images, symbols, or modes of representation collectively associated with a person, cult, or movement.
  the iconography of pop culture
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sentimental photographs of high quality continue the maudlin iconography of Indians as last representatives of a fine and more noble pristine past, oppressed by crude invaders.
  While this collection of styles is consonant with Ferry's interest in ironic pop art, it also reflects a significant departure, as noted, from the standard visual iconography of rock.
  This is clearest in his valorization of the visual iconography of the French Revolution.
  There's black and white pictures of presidential iconography: the oval office, motorcades, and the Presidential helicopter Marine One.
  In Texas, the first thing to hit me was the iconography - of the cowboy, the Southwest, and the landscape, along with rich Tex-Mex culture represented by the Mariachi bands.
2A collection of illustrations or portraits.
Example sentencesExamples
- With her designs for The Indians' Book of 1907, DeCora moved past a generic interest in Native symbols to create a pan-Indian iconography.
- The great festivals celebrating the saving events in the life of Christ and the life of his Mother are represented both in mural iconography in the upper parts of the church and on the icon screen.

Derivatives

iconographer

noun ˌʌɪkəˈnɒɡrəfəˌaɪkəˈnɑɡrəfər

From connoisseurs to iconographers to social historians, the quest for clarity within the shadowy realms of origins, meanings, contexts has long been of compulsive importance.
Example sentencesExamples
- Few know that Edmonton is home to an iconographer with the talent of an old master.
- And her specially favoured animals, the deer, the tur or the wild goat, into whose form she sometimes changed herself, could be used by the Christian iconographers to represent Satan himself.
- By the late mid-fifteenth century, the visual rhetoric of Western Catholicism could be said to reside firmly in the hands of private providers overseen by commissioning bishops and scholarly iconographers.
- She lives as a hermit in a cottage outside the village where she carries out her work as an iconographer.

iconographic

adjective ˌʌɪkənəˈɡrafɪkˌaɪkənəˈɡræfɪk

Working in metals, resin, wood and paint, Bourgeois has developed a strict iconographic language in which for example sewing and its tools are specifically to do with repair and motherly love.
Example sentencesExamples
- With the exception of the pieces in the Kinshasa museum, the attribution of these masks to the Luntu is based on the combination of stylistic and iconographic traits.
- Attired in African garments and armed with carved walking sticks, LeRoy Clarke cuts an imposing figure; much like the price tag on one of his iconographic paintings.
- He talks to us in his own iconographic language using hieroglyphs of expressionless cartoon figures, with male and female attributes, which he draws by hand before reproducing digitally.
- Even when reality has changed completely, we sometimes choose to stick to these iconographic images that were created maybe more than 20 years ago.

iconographical

adjectiveˌʌɪkənəˈɡrafɪk(ə)l

Twelve sets of drawings enhance our understanding of iconographical details and make the discussion easier to follow.
Example sentencesExamples
- This meticulous preservation of historical prototypes from copy to copy articulates a distinctly iconographical realism.
- Or else, they may appear as a goon squad, gate-crashing an art gallery, seizing and burning contemporary paintings that they find contrary to their iconographical tastes.
- The decorative, formal and iconographical nature of the artworks veil the confused personal tensions always present in relationships.
- Paintings (or rather pictures - it's often hard to see the difference) usually have some significant internal, technical, symbolic, iconographical detail which belongs to a tradition of other comparable things.

iconographically

adverbˌʌɪkənəˈɡrafɪk(ə)li

In this they are unlike iconographically similar photographs by recognised photographers.
Example sentencesExamples
- The subject matter of the easel paintings is either New York or Mexican scenes, a selection of which Anreus carefully analyzes formally and iconographically, pointing out their unique compositional qualities and grim content.
- Everything sensual and earthy - the exquisite wall-garden, the flowering rose, the beauty of a woman - tilts upwards iconographically toward God.
- This exhibit of iconographically unrelated subjects aimed to highlight the formal similarities and differences between the individual figures and encouraged the aesthetic study and appreciation of the series as a whole.
- Although iconographically it almost exactly resembles the Dancing Child Krishna from a private collection, this Sambandar gestures upward with his right hand, telling his father that Siva and Uma gave him his cup of milk.

Origin

Early 17th century (denoting a drawing or plan): from Greek eikonographia 'sketch, description', from eikōn 'likeness' + -graphia 'writing'.

Rhymes

autobiography, bibliography, biography, cardiography, cartography, chirography, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, cosmography, cryptography, demography, discography, filmography, geography, hagiography, historiography, hydrography, lexicography, lithography, oceanography, orthography, palaeography (US paleography), photography, radiography, reprography, stenography, topography, typography

Definition of iconography in US English:

iconography

nounˌīkəˈnäɡrəfēˌaɪkəˈnɑɡrəfi

1The visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these.
Example sentencesExamples
- The poses of seated figure and rooster and the relation between them distinctly recall the iconography of Peter's denial in early Christian and Carolingian images.
- Ever since, lions have been portrayed in art, myth and iconography as powerful symbols of solar strength, supremacy, glory, light and brilliance.
- Sunday Morning looks at the convergence of Islam and Latin culture in the religious iconography, the dress of the Byzantines, and the situation of women.
- The effectiveness of the statue was thus dependent in part on the visual suitability of its iconography and the quality of its form.
- My study of the iconography has revealed 37 images from the twelfth century, 65 from the thirteenth century, then a mighty leap to 201 from the fourteenth century.
- Some of the earliest forms of such art were in church iconography, paintings, mosaics, frescos, and stained glass windows which decorated and instructed at the same time: the Bible of the poor.
- It has been demonstrated that the iconography of the Del Sarto altarpiece reflects Franciscan doctrine and artistic conventions.
- It is not only the iconography of Blake's work that conveys a dream of liberation.
- But this belief, held by early military historians like Sir Charles Oman and J. E. Morris, was based on too literal and too limited an interpretation of medieval iconography such as the Bayeux Tapestry.
- The spearhead is unexpected, however, since spears, although associated in Bronze Age iconography with hunting and warfare, do not feature in depictions of sacrifice.
1. 1.1 The visual images, symbols, or modes of representation collectively associated with a person, cult, or movement.
  the iconography of pop culture
  Example sentencesExamples
  There's black and white pictures of presidential iconography: the oval office, motorcades, and the Presidential helicopter Marine One.
  While this collection of styles is consonant with Ferry's interest in ironic pop art, it also reflects a significant departure, as noted, from the standard visual iconography of rock.
  In Texas, the first thing to hit me was the iconography - of the cowboy, the Southwest, and the landscape, along with rich Tex-Mex culture represented by the Mariachi bands.
  Sentimental photographs of high quality continue the maudlin iconography of Indians as last representatives of a fine and more noble pristine past, oppressed by crude invaders.
  This is clearest in his valorization of the visual iconography of the French Revolution.
2A collection of illustrations or portraits.
Example sentencesExamples
- With her designs for The Indians' Book of 1907, DeCora moved past a generic interest in Native symbols to create a pan-Indian iconography.
- The great festivals celebrating the saving events in the life of Christ and the life of his Mother are represented both in mural iconography in the upper parts of the church and on the icon screen.

Origin

Early 17th century (denoting a drawing or plan): from Greek eikonographia ‘sketch, description’, from eikōn ‘likeness’ + -graphia ‘writing’.

单词	iconography
释义	Definition of iconography in English: iconography nounPlural iconographies ˌʌɪkəˈnɒɡrəfiˌaɪkəˈnɑɡrəfi 1mass noun The visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these. the conventional iconography of Christian art Example sentencesExamples My study of the iconography has revealed 37 images from the twelfth century, 65 from the thirteenth century, then a mighty leap to 201 from the fourteenth century. Ever since, lions have been portrayed in art, myth and iconography as powerful symbols of solar strength, supremacy, glory, light and brilliance. The spearhead is unexpected, however, since spears, although associated in Bronze Age iconography with hunting and warfare, do not feature in depictions of sacrifice. The poses of seated figure and rooster and the relation between them distinctly recall the iconography of Peter's denial in early Christian and Carolingian images. The effectiveness of the statue was thus dependent in part on the visual suitability of its iconography and the quality of its form. But this belief, held by early military historians like Sir Charles Oman and J. E. Morris, was based on too literal and too limited an interpretation of medieval iconography such as the Bayeux Tapestry. Sunday Morning looks at the convergence of Islam and Latin culture in the religious iconography, the dress of the Byzantines, and the situation of women. Some of the earliest forms of such art were in church iconography, paintings, mosaics, frescos, and stained glass windows which decorated and instructed at the same time: the Bible of the poor. It is not only the iconography of Blake's work that conveys a dream of liberation. It has been demonstrated that the iconography of the Del Sarto altarpiece reflects Franciscan doctrine and artistic conventions. 1.1 The visual images, symbols, or modes of representation collectively associated with a person, cult, or movement. the iconography of pop culture Example sentencesExamples Sentimental photographs of high quality continue the maudlin iconography of Indians as last representatives of a fine and more noble pristine past, oppressed by crude invaders. While this collection of styles is consonant with Ferry's interest in ironic pop art, it also reflects a significant departure, as noted, from the standard visual iconography of rock. This is clearest in his valorization of the visual iconography of the French Revolution. There's black and white pictures of presidential iconography: the oval office, motorcades, and the Presidential helicopter Marine One. In Texas, the first thing to hit me was the iconography - of the cowboy, the Southwest, and the landscape, along with rich Tex-Mex culture represented by the Mariachi bands. 2A collection of illustrations or portraits. Example sentencesExamples With her designs for The Indians' Book of 1907, DeCora moved past a generic interest in Native symbols to create a pan-Indian iconography. The great festivals celebrating the saving events in the life of Christ and the life of his Mother are represented both in mural iconography in the upper parts of the church and on the icon screen. Derivatives iconographer noun ˌʌɪkəˈnɒɡrəfəˌaɪkəˈnɑɡrəfər From connoisseurs to iconographers to social historians, the quest for clarity within the shadowy realms of origins, meanings, contexts has long been of compulsive importance. Example sentencesExamples Few know that Edmonton is home to an iconographer with the talent of an old master. And her specially favoured animals, the deer, the tur or the wild goat, into whose form she sometimes changed herself, could be used by the Christian iconographers to represent Satan himself. By the late mid-fifteenth century, the visual rhetoric of Western Catholicism could be said to reside firmly in the hands of private providers overseen by commissioning bishops and scholarly iconographers. She lives as a hermit in a cottage outside the village where she carries out her work as an iconographer. iconographic adjective ˌʌɪkənəˈɡrafɪkˌaɪkənəˈɡræfɪk Working in metals, resin, wood and paint, Bourgeois has developed a strict iconographic language in which for example sewing and its tools are specifically to do with repair and motherly love. Example sentencesExamples With the exception of the pieces in the Kinshasa museum, the attribution of these masks to the Luntu is based on the combination of stylistic and iconographic traits. Attired in African garments and armed with carved walking sticks, LeRoy Clarke cuts an imposing figure; much like the price tag on one of his iconographic paintings. He talks to us in his own iconographic language using hieroglyphs of expressionless cartoon figures, with male and female attributes, which he draws by hand before reproducing digitally. Even when reality has changed completely, we sometimes choose to stick to these iconographic images that were created maybe more than 20 years ago. iconographical adjectiveˌʌɪkənəˈɡrafɪk(ə)l Twelve sets of drawings enhance our understanding of iconographical details and make the discussion easier to follow. Example sentencesExamples This meticulous preservation of historical prototypes from copy to copy articulates a distinctly iconographical realism. Or else, they may appear as a goon squad, gate-crashing an art gallery, seizing and burning contemporary paintings that they find contrary to their iconographical tastes. The decorative, formal and iconographical nature of the artworks veil the confused personal tensions always present in relationships. Paintings (or rather pictures - it's often hard to see the difference) usually have some significant internal, technical, symbolic, iconographical detail which belongs to a tradition of other comparable things. iconographically adverbˌʌɪkənəˈɡrafɪk(ə)li In this they are unlike iconographically similar photographs by recognised photographers. Example sentencesExamples The subject matter of the easel paintings is either New York or Mexican scenes, a selection of which Anreus carefully analyzes formally and iconographically, pointing out their unique compositional qualities and grim content. Everything sensual and earthy - the exquisite wall-garden, the flowering rose, the beauty of a woman - tilts upwards iconographically toward God. This exhibit of iconographically unrelated subjects aimed to highlight the formal similarities and differences between the individual figures and encouraged the aesthetic study and appreciation of the series as a whole. Although iconographically it almost exactly resembles the Dancing Child Krishna from a private collection, this Sambandar gestures upward with his right hand, telling his father that Siva and Uma gave him his cup of milk. Origin Early 17th century (denoting a drawing or plan): from Greek eikonographia 'sketch, description', from eikōn 'likeness' + -graphia 'writing'. Rhymes autobiography, bibliography, biography, cardiography, cartography, chirography, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, cosmography, cryptography, demography, discography, filmography, geography, hagiography, historiography, hydrography, lexicography, lithography, oceanography, orthography, palaeography (US paleography), photography, radiography, reprography, stenography, topography, typography Definition of iconography in US English: iconography nounˌīkəˈnäɡrəfēˌaɪkəˈnɑɡrəfi 1The visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these. Example sentencesExamples The poses of seated figure and rooster and the relation between them distinctly recall the iconography of Peter's denial in early Christian and Carolingian images. Ever since, lions have been portrayed in art, myth and iconography as powerful symbols of solar strength, supremacy, glory, light and brilliance. Sunday Morning looks at the convergence of Islam and Latin culture in the religious iconography, the dress of the Byzantines, and the situation of women. The effectiveness of the statue was thus dependent in part on the visual suitability of its iconography and the quality of its form. My study of the iconography has revealed 37 images from the twelfth century, 65 from the thirteenth century, then a mighty leap to 201 from the fourteenth century. Some of the earliest forms of such art were in church iconography, paintings, mosaics, frescos, and stained glass windows which decorated and instructed at the same time: the Bible of the poor. It has been demonstrated that the iconography of the Del Sarto altarpiece reflects Franciscan doctrine and artistic conventions. It is not only the iconography of Blake's work that conveys a dream of liberation. But this belief, held by early military historians like Sir Charles Oman and J. E. Morris, was based on too literal and too limited an interpretation of medieval iconography such as the Bayeux Tapestry. The spearhead is unexpected, however, since spears, although associated in Bronze Age iconography with hunting and warfare, do not feature in depictions of sacrifice. 1.1 The visual images, symbols, or modes of representation collectively associated with a person, cult, or movement. the iconography of pop culture Example sentencesExamples There's black and white pictures of presidential iconography: the oval office, motorcades, and the Presidential helicopter Marine One. While this collection of styles is consonant with Ferry's interest in ironic pop art, it also reflects a significant departure, as noted, from the standard visual iconography of rock. In Texas, the first thing to hit me was the iconography - of the cowboy, the Southwest, and the landscape, along with rich Tex-Mex culture represented by the Mariachi bands. Sentimental photographs of high quality continue the maudlin iconography of Indians as last representatives of a fine and more noble pristine past, oppressed by crude invaders. This is clearest in his valorization of the visual iconography of the French Revolution. 2A collection of illustrations or portraits. Example sentencesExamples With her designs for The Indians' Book of 1907, DeCora moved past a generic interest in Native symbols to create a pan-Indian iconography. The great festivals celebrating the saving events in the life of Christ and the life of his Mother are represented both in mural iconography in the upper parts of the church and on the icon screen. Origin Early 17th century (denoting a drawing or plan): from Greek eikonographia ‘sketch, description’, from eikōn ‘likeness’ + -graphia ‘writing’.
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