iconography

English

Etymology

From icono- +‎ -graphy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaɪkəˈnɒɡɹəfi/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

iconography (countable and uncountable, plural iconographies)

1. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.
   • 1975 May 4, Dale Harris, “Merce Cunningham”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 April 2024:

     The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.

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

   the iconography of the ancients

3. The study of representative art in general.

Derived terms

• iconographer

Translations

set of symbolic forms

• Afrikaans: ikonografie
• Arabic: علم رسم الأيقونات
• Azerbaijani: ikonoqrafiya
• Basque: ikonografia (eu)
• Bulgarian: иконография f (ikonografija)
• Catalan: iconografia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圖像誌 / 图像志

• Czech: ikonografie f
• Danish: ikonografi c
• Dutch: iconografie (nl) f
• Esperanto: ikonografio
• Estonian: ikonograafia
• Finnish: ikonografia
• French: iconographie (fr) f
• Galician: iconografía (gl) f
• Georgian: იკონოგრაფია (iḳonograpia)
• German: Ikonografie (de) f
• Hebrew: איקונוגרפיה (he)
• Hungarian: ikonográfia (hu)
• Ido: ikonografio (io)
• Indonesian: ikonografi (id)
• Irish: íocónagrafaíocht f
• Italian: iconografia (it) f
• Japanese: 図像学 (ja)
• Korean: 도상학 (dosanghak)
• Norwegian: ikonografi
• Persian: شمایل‌نگاری
• Polish: ikonografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: iconografia (pt) f
• Romanian: iconografie (ro) f
• Russian: иконография (ru) f (ikonografija)
• Serbo-Croatian: ikonografija (sh) f
• Slovene: ikonografija (sl) f
• Spanish: iconografía (es) f
• Swedish: ikonografi (sv) c
• Tagalog: ikonograpiya
• Turkish: ikonografi (tr)
• Ukrainian: іконографія (uk) f (ikonohrafija)
• Uzbek: ikonografiya
• Welsh: eiconograffeg