iconography

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The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

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religious iconography Source: Internet

the propagandistic iconography of a despot Source: Internet

Above all, it is a theoretical reconstruction which does not accord with the actual Roman iconography. Source: Internet

Around 7th century, both Tiahuanaco and Wari or Huari Empire (600–1200, Central and northern Peru) expanded its influence to all the Andean region, imposing the Huari urbanism and tiahuanaco religious iconography. Source: Internet

Encyclopedia of World Religions by Johannes P. Schade 2007, ISBN 1-60136-000-2 entry under Ascension By the 6th century the iconography of the Ascension had been established and by the 9th century Ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches. Source: Internet

As in the beat movement preceding them, and the punk movement that followed soon after, hippie symbols and iconography were purposely borrowed from either "low" or "primitive" cultures, with hippie fashion reflecting a disorderly, often vagrant style. Source: Internet

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