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What does iconology mean?

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Noun
  1. The study of icons in art or art history.
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Iconography as the study of representation, also called iconology, entered mainstream academia at the beginning of the twentieth century.
In other words, the window may have a localized iconology as well as a universalized iconography.
Bustling iconology notwithstanding, Ji's pictures are not exclusively literary or even representational.
In iconology, creating becomes a liturgical offering of works of art to God, but the artwork offered is not separate from its author.
The iconology of the oppressed and dispersed Highlander has been adopted by Lowland Scotland, itself largely of teutonic origin although its place names, mostly Celtic, testify to an older order.
His iconology presumes considerable knowledge of art history and politic.

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