iconography

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.

   “The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.

   “the iconography of the ancients”

3. (countable, uncountable)The study of representative art in general.