iconography

Plural: iconographies

Noun

• the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject
  • "religious iconography"
  • "the propagandistic iconography of a despot"
• 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.

Examples

• the iconography of the ancients