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What does iconography mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word iconography? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.
  2. The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.
  3. The study of representative art in general.
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The progressive authors of much of America's patriotic iconography rejected blind nationalism, militaristic drumbeating and sheeplike conformism.
Is there a place, indeed, within our Reformation churches, mirabile dictu, for a new kind of biblically inspired iconography?
In terms of generic iconography, Alphaville is truly exhaustive in its attention to detail.
Jemima Lewis in the Telegraph makes some telling points about journalistic iconography and scientific nomenclature.
Ever since, lions have been portrayed in art, myth and iconography as powerful symbols of solar strength, supremacy, glory, light and brilliance.
The effectiveness of the statue was thus dependent in part on the visual suitability of its iconography and the quality of its form.

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