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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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Ever since, lions have been portrayed in art, myth and iconography as powerful symbols of solar strength, supremacy, glory, light and brilliance.
I integrate diverse elements from pre-Columbian mythology, Western religious iconography, and American popular culture.
A campaign for hosiery featured the standard disembodied, stocking-clad leg that Dali juxtaposed with his provocative iconography.
In terms of generic iconography, Alphaville is truly exhaustive in its attention to detail.
Is there a place, indeed, within our Reformation churches, mirabile dictu, for a new kind of biblically inspired iconography?
The progressive authors of much of America's patriotic iconography rejected blind nationalism, militaristic drumbeating and sheeplike conformism.

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