iconography

Definitions

1. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.
   countable, uncountable
2. The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.
   countable, uncountable
3. The study of representative art in general.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The hundredodd pages of photographs provide⟳ superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.”

“the iconography of the ancients”

CEFR level