Iconology

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Iconology \I`co*nol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ?; e'ikw`n an image + ?
     discourse: cf. F. iconologie.]
     The discussion or description of portraiture or of
     representative images. Cf. {Iconography}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  iconology
       n : the branch of art history that studies visual images and
           their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political
           terms)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "iconology":
     allegory, charactery, cipher, conventional symbol, emblem,
     ideogram, logogram, logotype, love knot, pictogram, symbol,
     symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, token, totem,
     totem pole, type