iconography

iconography is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

[2] The study of representative art in general. Christian iconography, the study of the representations in art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels, saints, virtues, vices, etc.

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