单词 | iconography |
释义 | iconography —iconograph /uy kon"euh graf', -grahf'/, n. —iconographer, n. /uy'keuh nog"reuh fee/, n. , pl. iconographies. 1. symbolic representation, esp. the conventional meanings attached to an image or images. 2. subject matter in the visual arts, esp. with reference to the conventions regarding the treatment of a subject in artistic representation. 3. the study or analysis of subject matter and its meaning in the visual arts; iconology. 4. a representation or a group of representations of a person, place, or thing, as a portrait or a collection of portraits. [1620-30; < ML iconographia < Gk eikonographía. See ICONO-, -GRAPHY] |
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