Word Finder - iconography

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

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The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.

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the iconography of the ancients

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The study of representative art in general.

Its influence on the iconography of medieval art was great.

After visiting and examining the principal churches, first of Normandy, then of central and southern France, he was on his return appointed by Guizot secretary to the Historical Committee of Arts and Monuments (1835); and in the following years he delivered several courses of lectures on Christian iconography at the Bibliotheque Royale.

Prynne posits a conflict between the iconography available through meditational perceptions of nature, and the iconography of religious art and pious objects.

All banks will be painted sky blue and have new iconography aimed to make them more appealing to the public.

In religious iconography, being shown beneath an arch is a traditional sign of divinity.

The term "iconography," once confined to the study of engravings, is now applied to the history of portrait images in Christian art, though it is also used with a qualifying adjective of Greek, Roman and other art.

This document provides helpful guidance on using the iconography for your campaign.

Chapter 4 examines the iconography of veiling and the difficulties involved in decoding ancient representations of female dress.

Byzantine iconography of the cross often depicts the sun and the moon above the cross, to either side.

It's one thing to rip off catholic iconography.

This military tradition was strong enough to determine the medieval iconography of St Derfel.

The descriptions of Ezekiel are apparently explicit descriptions of temple iconography.

Most of them have been indifferently restored by local artists, who follow mechanically a kind of hieratic tradition, the principles of which are embodied in a work of iconography by the monk Dionysius, said to have been a pupil of Panselinos.

General topic areas covered include iconography, image manipulation and image management.

Character names and traits, plot details and story structure, visual iconography and design are all distinct.

This work is the first comprehensive study of funerary stelae exhibiting mixed iconography from Upper Egypt during the Roman period in Egypt.

Red shoes and platform shoes are part of style iconography.

Country star Tim McGraw is partial to tattoos of Christian iconography on his arms.

Religious iconography can be included in tribal art, but often artwork of currently existing religions, such as Islam, Christianity and Buddhism, is instead put into the category of religious art.

Patriotism as well as religion all have their own kinds of iconography.

The visual of Kirk opening the bin supposedly holding the supply of special seed grain they are transporting to a colony and being pelted with stuffed tribbles has entered the cultural iconography.