iconographic

(adjective)

Of or pertaining to a religious icon.

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(adjective)

Related to the branch of art history that studies the identification, description, and interpretation of the content of images, including the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.

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Examples of iconographic in the following topics:

  • Iconography

    • While most iconographical scholarship remains highly dense and specialized, some analyses began to attract a much wider audience; for example, Panofsky's theory (now generally out of favor with specialists) is that the writing on the rear wall in The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck turned the painting into the record of a marriage contract.
    • Define iconography and interpret or perform an iconographical analysis of an image

  • Identification and Art

    • In an influential article of 1942, Introduction to an "Iconography of Mediaeval Architecture",Richard Krautheimer, a specialist on early medieval churches and another German émigré, extended iconographical analysis to architectural forms.
    • Technological advances allowed for the building-up of huge collections of photographs, with an iconographic arrangement or index, such as the Warburg Institute and the Index of Christian Art at Princeton (which has made a specialism of iconography since its early days in America).

  • Art History Methodology

    • An iconographical analysis is one which focuses on particular design elements of an object.

  • Sacred Objects

    • In addition, an iconographic system whereby each saint is associated with a particular object or animal has been well-defined in art history.

  • The Early Middle Ages

    • Early medieval art in Europe grew out of the artistic heritage of the Roman Empire and the iconographic traditions of the early Christian church.

  • Romanesque Sculpture: Majestat Batlló

    • The iconographic tradition of Jesus in a colobium dates to 586 CE, in a manuscript of the Syriac Gospels called the Rabbula Gospels, written by the monk Rabbula somewhere in Mesopotamia.

  • Mathura Style

    • This expression of the Buddha as both man and God became the iconographic canon for subsequent Buddhist art.

  • Monumental Reliefs in Southeast Asia

    • It was greatly influenced by Indian styles and techniques, and it generally portrayed religious themes with high iconographic precision.

  • Greco-Buddhist Art

    • This expression of the Buddha as both man and God became the iconographic canon for subsequent Buddhist art.

  • Religion as a Theme

    • Christianity has historically made use of an elaborate iconographic system, whereby each saint is associated with a particular object or animal.