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ICONOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does iconology mean? 

ICONOLOGY (noun)
  The noun ICONOLOGY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ICONOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ICONOLOGY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("iconology" is a kind of...):

art history (the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture)


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