iconographer
- noun
- /ˌaɪkəˈnɒɡrəfə/
- Specialized
:
iconógrafo
- The iconographer spent years perfecting the technique used to create stunning religious images.
Examples
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Iconographers such as Andor Pigler have documented the death of Socrates as a subject roughly from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.
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However, over the centuries it has posed many problems to the iconographer (Fig. 1).
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Later medieval iconographers make a similar point but in a pictorial medium.
Academic text (2000) -
Through the 1980s, the hundreds of rollouts and thousands of pictures in the Kerrs' files helped another wave of young epigraphers and iconographers make more discoveries.
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Meanwhile, William Saturno and iconographer Karl Taube were arguing that the San Bartolo murals depicted the Olmec maize god.
Academic text (2007) -
From connoisseurs to iconographers to social historians, the quest for clarity within the shadowy realms of origins, meanings, and contexts has long been of compulsive importance.
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During the workshop, the iconographer taught participants how to depict saints on wooden panels.
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Many art historians study the works of famous iconographers to understand the evolution of Christian art.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
iconographer = iconography (semi-transparent) = icon + graphy + er
The noun is regularly formed from iconography with the agentive suffix -er, so the derivation is straightforward once the base term is known.
Etymology
Iconographer comes from the Greek parts icon ('image') and -graph ('to write' or 'to draw'), the same -graph you see in photographer. So an iconographer is someone who creates or studies painted religious images.