Week Two: Iconography

i⋅co⋅nog⋅ra⋅phy
  /ˌaɪkəˈnɒgrəfi/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ahy-kuh-nog-ruh-fee] Show IPA
–noun, plural -phies.
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.
Origin:
1620–30; < ML īconographia < Gk eikonographía. See icono-, -graphy

Related forms:
i⋅con⋅o⋅graph  /aɪˈkɒnəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ahy-kon-uh-graf, -grahf] Show IPA , noun
i⋅co⋅nog⋅ra⋅pher, noun

from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/iconography


What is Art Iconography
Class please read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconography

excerpt:

Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images. The word iconography literally means "image writing", and comes from the Greek εικον (image) and γραφειν (to write). A secondary meaning is the painting of icons in the Byzantine and Orthodox Christian tradition. The term is also used in many academic fields other than art history, for example semiotics and media studies, and in general usage, for the content of images, the typical depiction in images of a subject, and related senses. Sometimes distinctions have been made between Iconology and Iconography, although the definitions and so the distinction made varies.