Iconology

n.

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The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.

Noun

1.

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

allegory, charactery, cipher, conventional symbol, emblem, ideogram, logogram, logotype, love knot, pictogram, symbol, symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, token, totem, totem pole, type