Iconography
Iconography , noun
[Greek {not transcribed} a sketch or description; e'ikw`n an image + {not transcribed} of describe: compare French 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.
2.
The study of representative art in general.
Collocations (1)
Christian iconography , the study of the representations in art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels, saints, virtues, vices, etc.