icono-, icon- +

1. A drawing, engraving, or illustration for a book.
2. The description or illustration of any subject by means of drawings or figures; such as, any book or work in which this is done.
3. The branch of knowledge that deals with the representation of people or objects by any application of the arts of design.
4. A symbolic representation; especially, the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
5. The study or analysis of subject matter and its meaning in the visual arts; iconology.
6. A representation or a group of representations of a person, place, or thing; such as, a portrait or a collection of portraits.

Someone who makes images.

1. A reference to iconography.
2. Representing by means of pictures or diagrams; as, an icongraphic encyclopaedia.

1. The images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject.
2. Subject matter in the visual arts; especially, with reference to the conventions regarding the treatment of a subject in artistic representation.
3. The study or analysis of subject matter and its meaning in the visual arts; iconology.
4. A representation or a group of representations of a person, place, or thing; such as, a portrait or a collection of portraits.
5. The art of representing or illustrating by means of pictures, images, or figures; a symbolic and metaphorical representation of a particular subject.

It is sometimes considered a component of cognitive archaeology, in which artistic representations which usually have an overt religious or ceremonial significance are studied.

Iconography is also the study of statues and images, bas-reliefs, busts, medals, etc. The earliest iconographical studies were published in the 16th century.

Extensive iconographical study did not begin in Europe until the 18th century; however, when, as a companion to archaeology, it consisted of the classification of subjects and motifs in ancient monuments.

The sexuoerotic arousal from viewing nude pictures, scultures, or statues; a form of voyeurism: a paraphilia in which an individual, more often a male, derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing people in-the-nude , undressing, or engaged in sexual activity.

Sexual stimulation resulting from images (or icons).

Someone who worships images; a name given to Romanists.

1. The worship of images.
2. The worshiping of religious images rather than of what they represent.

An book of emblems or an emblem book.

Emblem books are a particular style of illustrated book developed in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries, normally containing about one hundred picture and text combinations.

Each combination consisted of a woodcut or engraving (emblems) accompanied by one or more short texts, intended to inspire readers to reflect on a general moral lesson derived from the reading of both picture and text together.

The picture was potentially subject to numerous interpretations: only by reading the text could a reader be certain which meaning was intended by the author.

1. A reference to the historical analysis and interpretive study of symbols or images and their contextual significance; iconography.
2. Referring to the study of icons or symbolic representations.

Someone who deals with the description, analysis, and interpretation of icons or iconic representations.

1. The branch of knowledge which deals with the subject of icons (or images).
2. The subject matter of this study, icons collectively, or as objects of investigation.
3. A branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meanings (especially in social or political terms).
4. A symbolic representation; symbolism.

1. A war against images or idols.
2. Hostility or opposition to images; especially, to their use in connecion with religious worship.

1. Divination of pictures or icons or with special images.
2. Divination by using images or icons.

1. An excessive devotion to or a morbid impulse for collecting images (icons or portraits).
2. An infatuation with icons, whether as objects of devotion, works of art, bric-a-brac, or curios.