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ICONOLOGY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
The branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("iconology" is a kind of...):
art history (the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture)