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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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Bustling iconology notwithstanding, Ji's pictures are not exclusively literary or even representational.
If they shared this iconology by more than pure chance, wouldn't the Native Americans have shown some other signs of Arabic influence when the Europeans got there?
We see how Jesus blesses Mary who is surrounded by rays of light that remind us of the nimbus of the traditional attributive iconology of cult images before the Reformation.
In other words, the window may have a localized iconology as well as a universalized iconography.
Iconography as the study of representation, also called iconology, entered mainstream academia at the beginning of the twentieth century.
In iconology, creating becomes a liturgical offering of works of art to God, but the artwork offered is not separate from its author.

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