Iconology

Word ICONOLOGY
Character 9
Hyphenation i co nol o gy
Pronunciations /aɪkəˈnɒlədʒi/

Definitions and meanings of "Iconology"

What do we mean by iconology?

The branch of art history that deals with the description, analysis, and interpretation of icons or iconic representations. noun

The science or art of representation by effigies or pictures. noun

A description of statues, pictures, engravings, etc. noun

The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. iconography. noun

The study of icons in art or art history. noun

The branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms) noun

The study of icons in art or art history.

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The word "iconology" in example sentences

Erwin Panofsky, with whose name iconology has been connected ever since, not only developed its theoretical foundations, but contributed by his practi - cal work in art history to the main triumph of iconol - ogy after the Second World War. ❋ JAN BIA��OSTOCKI (1968)

Instead of religious iconology, Cartier-Bresson finds playful expression in the Surrealistic image of a pair of high-heeled shoes shaped like a heart. ❋ Tobias Grey (2012)

On the first floor, Strand's uncompromisingly austere photography from Spanish, North American and Mexican collections offers a hard-bitten "collective portrait" of small-town Mexican life told through photos of individuals, landscapes, studies of architecture and religious iconology. ❋ Tobias Grey (2012)

For those of you that really dug Tom Hanks and his turn as Robert Langdon, the intrepid professor of religious iconology and symbology that continuously finds himself embroiled in one Religious Conspiracy after another, this should be a must-buy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because that is what church iconology tried to establish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This quite recent contribution to the Drongo Brown iconology ... ❋ Newmania (2007)

Using the cross iconology, together with a naked woman for a campaign aimed at a problem which a good part of right-wing males at least here in italy consider their right was simply too much. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet there is a long tradition of cultural iconology and, indeed, idolatry in our political system. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I think Elizabeth Moon is going to replace Anne McCaffrey in my author iconology - besides the fact I've actually met and talked with Elizabeth and I doubt that I'll ever have that opportunity with "The Lady" herself. ❋ Sidewinder (2002)

This invocation of popular iconology grounds his satire not in an ideal realm from which the powerful are merely lampooned but rather within the actual and bloody struggle of the oppressed both to free their understandings and to appropriate for themselves their land, labor, and nation. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Furthermore, none of the language on this ship resembles the iconology we witnessed on Iconia nor does it match the known roots of the Iccobar, Dewan, and Dinasian languages which we already know to be formed from Iconia. ❋ Robert Greenberger (2001)

Suppose iconology, and the problem of the image, was not just an "anthropological universal," but an issue that reached right down into the subhuman, even suborganic slime? ❋ Unknown (1997)

Indeed, Mitchell's foray into paleontology and the philosophy -- or tropology -- of science seemed largely predicated on the question of whether "iconology, and the problem of the image, was ... an issue that reached right down into the subhuman, even suborganic slime." ❋ Unknown (1997)

So he wandered over disciplinary, historical, and geographical boundaries in search of an iconology, accompanied, it must be said, by quite a few marvellous students, colleagues, and collaborators. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Propelled into the center of theoretical debate in the postmodern era, Mitchell conceived his own grand theoretical project, an iconology or "theory of images" that would answer all the fundamental questions that had plagued his work since the beginning: What is an image? ❋ Unknown (1997)

The study of iconography, and its offshoot iconology—the study of symbols in relation to a specific period—is part of the tapestry of history. ❋ Gertrude Grace Sill (1975)

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