What is the difference between iconography and icon?
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A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.
The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.
The study of representative art in general.
An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
(linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also (symbol) and (index).
Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.
Icon is a related term of iconography.
As nouns the difference between iconography and icon
is that iconography is a set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art while icon is an , symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.iconography
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(wikipedia iconography)Noun
- the iconography of the ancients
icon
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(wikipedia icon)Alternative forms
* eikon, ikonNoun
(en noun)- That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.