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Symbols vs Iconography - What's the difference?

symbols | iconography |

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.

symbols

English

Noun

(head)
    • English autological terms ----

    iconography

    English

    (wikipedia iconography)

    Noun

  • 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 iconography of the ancients
  • The study of representative art in general.