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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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In iconology, creating becomes a liturgical offering of works of art to God, but the artwork offered is not separate from its author.
The media theory of the American theorist Mitchell has been challenging since the publication of Iconology.
His iconology presumes considerable knowledge of art history and politic.
Panofsky's later, more popular text, Studies in Iconology, does discuss Saturn and Ficino, but not in adequate depth.
Iconography as the study of representation, also called iconology, entered mainstream academia at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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.

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