iconography

About 1.42 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.
2. noun The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.

   the iconography of the ancients

3. noun The study of representative art in general.

Similar words

depiction symbolism iconology imagery pictography representation ideography illustration symbology pictorialism

Often followed by

of and in is that was as to for

Word family

iconographies