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the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject; "religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot"

The description of anc. images or statues; the art exercised by the image-makers of all ages, expressing in sculpture, carving, and painting, actual persons and events, or abstract and spiritual notions.

n. [Greek] The description of ancient images or representations, as statues, paintings in fresco, mosaic, engravings on gems or metals, and the like.