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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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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.
Bustling iconology notwithstanding, Ji's pictures are not exclusively literary or even representational.
In other words, the window may have a localized iconology as well as a universalized iconography.
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.
Iconography as the study of representation, also called iconology, entered mainstream academia at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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