iconography

noun3

1. •
   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. — 1975
2. •
   The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.
3. •
   The study of representative art in general.