iconography
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iconography (countable and uncountable, plural iconographies)
- A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.
- The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.
- the iconography of the ancients
- The study of representative art in general.
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set of symbolic forms
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