Iconographic Interpretation

Iconographic Interpretation is an art-historical method of visual analysis that explicates the subject matter, symbols, and narrative motifs of images by relating them systematically to established iconographic traditions, textual sources, and their specific cultural-historical contexts.

767

Publications

32.7K

Citations

966

Authors

372

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

Iconography

Children

Cross-cultural Symbol ComparisonFormal MeaningHistorical Iconographic ContextIconographic DecodingIconographic Source AnalysisNarrative Cycle InterpretationPosture SemanticsSacred Image InterpretationSemantic Layering In ImagesSemantics Of Visual Signs

Publications

767

The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of past Environments

Allen Carlson, Denis Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1989 · 830 citations

Architecture, Human Geography, Landscape Architecture +14

Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology

Lee B. Brown, William J. Mitchell · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1986 · 708 citations

Humanities, Art History, Cultural Studies +10

Showing seeing: a critique of visual culture

William J. Mitchell · Journal of Visual Culture · 2002 · 685 citations · Full text

Humanities, Art History, Cultural Studies +12

Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

Bruno Lasker · Pacific Affairs · 1943 · 534 citations

Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Iconography +13

The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus

Richard F. Thomas, Paul Zanker · The Classical World · 1990 · 483 citations

Humanities, Art History, Classics +16

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Authors

966

WJ
William J. Mitchell
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
6 publications · 1.1K citations
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Denis Cosgrove
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
5 publications · 1.5K citations
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SD
Stephen Daniels
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
4 publications · 1.2K citations
4
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EH
E. H. Gombrich
University of London, United Kingdom
4 publications · 451 citations
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JE
James Elkins
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States
3 publications · 98 citations
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372

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Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 34 publications · 2.2K citations
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The Art Bulletin
25 publications · 882 citations
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Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
15 publications · 2.1K citations
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Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
15 publications · 628 citations
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American Journal of Archaeology
10 publications · 306 citations
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