iconography Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject
    • religious iconography
    • the propagandistic iconography of a despot

WordNet

I`co*nog"ra*phy noun
Etymology
Gr. a sketch or description; an image + of describe: cf. F. iconographie.
Definitions
  1. The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.
  2. The study of representative art in general.

Webster 1913