— iconograph /uy kon"euh graf', -grahf'/ , n. — iconographer , n.
/uy'keuh nog"reuh fee/ , n. , pl. iconographies .
1. symbolic representation, esp. the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
2. subject matter in the visual arts, esp. with reference to the conventions regarding the treatment of a subject in artistic representation.
3. the study or analysis of subject matter and its meaning in the visual arts; iconology.
4. a representation or a group of representations of a person, place, or thing, as a portrait or a collection of portraits.
[ 1620-30; iconographia eikonographía. See ICONO-, -GRAPHY ]