The difference between "Iconography" and "Iconology" I read a book yesterday that referred to "Iconography" and "Iconology". I looked them up in the English dictionary and have got it. the meaning of "Iconography" is that the way that a particular people, religiors or political group etc represent ideas in pictures or images; "Iconology", it means the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning(especially in social or political terms). According to the writer, the former means discriptive and derived from Geek "graphein", the latter means explanatory and originated from Greece "logos". I am not sure whether my composition is correct.