Symbols vs Iconography - What's the difference?
symbols | iconography |
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.
As nouns the difference between symbols and iconography
is that symbols is while iconography is a set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.iconography
English
(wikipedia iconography)Noun
- the iconography of the ancients