iconography

iconography
    n 1: the images and symbolic representations that are
         traditionally associated with a person or a subject;
         "religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of
         a despot"
    

Iconography \I`co*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? a sketch or
   description; e'ikw`n an image + ? of describe: cf. F.
   iconographie.]
   1. The art or representation by pictures or images; the
      description or study of portraiture or representation, as
      of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.
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   2. The study of representative art in general.
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   {Christian iconography}, the study of the representations in
      art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels,
      saints, virtues, vices, etc.
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50 Moby Thesaurus words for "iconography":
      alphabet, art, blueprint, charactering, characterization, chart,
      choreography, conventional representation, dance notation,
      delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, drama,
      drawing, exemplification, figuration, hieroglyphic, ideogram,
      illustration, imagery, imaging, letter, limning, logogram,
      logograph, map, musical notation, notation, pictogram,
      picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement,
      presentment, printing, projection, realization, rendering,
      rendition, representation, schema, score, script, syllabary,
      symbol, tablature, writing