iconographic
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- adjective
- /ˌaɪkəˈnɒɡrəfɪk/
- Specialized
:
iconográfico
- Modern art historians have naturally discussed the relief in greater detail, seeking to explain each inscription and iconographic feature.
- iconographic interpretation
- iconographic analysis
- formal and iconographic
Examples
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What was new was Francesco's pictorial use, in his iconographic invention, of a metaphor so specifically associated with a particular theory of vision.
Academic text (2007) -
Impressionism is exemplary, offering both iconographic reference to historical context and painterly signs of tropological distance from that context.
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Importantly, Albertini did not use an iconographic designation for the work.
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Previous scholarship has been primarily concerned with the formal analysis and iconographic study of the narrative vignettes surrounding the central icon.
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The Fronde thesis fails to account for the changing iconographic fashions at Versailles.
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The general acceptance of St-Denis as the source of this new art on the basis of clear formal and iconographic transmission is widely accepted and noncontroversial.
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In fact, the range of meanings assigned to the faces on Lagoon regalia may be similar to other iconographic systems found on a surprisingly large number of portraits from other traditional societies.
Academic text (1990) -
The drawing represented these images—a point readily established in Freud's hermeneutics or by our formal and iconographic analysis.
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There is a tradition in Michelangelo scholarship that argues against elaborate iconographic interpretations by pointing out that Michelangelo was more concerned with issues of planning and structural problem-solving.
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The museum's exhibit highlighted several iconographic pieces, each illustrating significant cultural symbols.
Synonyms
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4.3
A way of showing meaning using a color, object or action
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3.7
Relating to pictures or charts that show information
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7.0
A symbol of an idea or quality, like a flag
The meaning of pictures and symbols in art or media
Acting as a symbol of an idea like peace or courage
How Pictorial
Surface Forms
Morphology
iconographic = iconography (semi-transparent) = icon + graph + ic
The adjective is transparently related to iconography, but the broader information-design sense is specialized and only partly inferable from the parts.
Etymology
Iconographic comes from icon ('image') and graph ('to draw'), so it makes you think of pictures or symbols that explain something. That is why we call buttons, charts, or signs 'iconographic' when they use images to show information.