ICONOLOGY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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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