Iconography Definition

Iconography Sentence Examples

• Its influence on the iconography of medieval art was great.

• After visiting and examining the principal churches, first of Normandy, then of central and southern France, he was on his return appointed by Guizot secretary to the Historical Committee of Arts and Monuments (1835); and in the following years he delivered several courses of lectures on Christian iconography at the Bibliotheque Royale.

• Prynne posits a conflict between the iconography available through meditational perceptions of nature, and the iconography of religious art and pious objects.

• All banks will be painted sky blue and have new iconography aimed to make them more appealing to the public.

• The term "iconography," once confined to the study of engravings, is now applied to the history of portrait images in Christian art, though it is also used with a qualifying adjective of Greek, Roman and other art.