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Definition of Iconology
1. Noun. The branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms).
Definition of Iconology
1. n. The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.
Definition of Iconology
1. Noun. The study of icons in art or art history. ¹
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Definition of Iconology
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Medical Definition of Iconology
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Iconology
Literary usage of Iconology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks: With Instructions by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Henry Fuseli (1765)
"... the honour : for in the whole iconology of Ripa, of two or three that are
tolerable ones, Nantes In gurgite vq/io; an Ethiopian warning ..."
2. Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture by Edward Payson Evans (1896)
"... regeneration—Allusions to it by Dante and other poets—The fish in sacred
iconology—Significance of the whale in ecclesiastical architecture—Symbolism of ..."
3. Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation by Edith Balas (1995)
"... be traced back to ancient Egyptian art; the motif of the clenched 229
Panofsky, "Neoplatonic Movement and Michelangelo," in Studies in iconology, 180-2. ..."
4. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips, John Abraham Heraud, Benson Earle Hill (1800)
"Elementary iconology, adorned with loS engraved figures, 4 vols. 121110. and 4 vols.
410. Paris. ... on " iconology," but death prevented him from ..."
5. First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art: Compiled for the by Henry Cole, John Hungerford Pollen, Great Britain Dept. of Science and Art (1870)
"iconology.—iconology, or, a Collection of Emblematical Figures, moral and
instructive illustrated with engraved and coloured subjects. Part 1. 12mo. ..."
6. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of William Woollett by Louis Fagan (1885)
"Emblems, illustrating Richardson's iconology, After WILLIAM HAMILTON, RA
Dimensions':—o3 ... II. of : " iconology, or, a Collection of emblematical Figures, ..."
7. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1877)
"No Catholic, well versed as he might be in the mysterious symbolism of iconology,
would hesitate for a moment to worship at that shrine the Virgin Mary, ..."
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