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Iconology is a discipline that takes care of study, detect and explain all those pictorial representations that indicate virtues, vices, moral issues or any another type of natural question that deserves to be highlighted by the people who are practicing or developing them in the work in question.

In the analysis and study of greek and roman mythologies, to mention the most popular that have existed and that even today are still so valid with the stories and legends of their gods, goddesses, creatures, among others, iconology, has been of close relevance to know more in detail some issues and of course to explain them.

Now, it is worth noting that iconology has not been kept up to date. margin of the history of the religion and of history itself and then he has also focused his attention on the enormous number of characters who stood out in these fields.

Basically, iconology, what it performs is a very exhaustive analysis of the corresponding images, the studies in all possible aspects, as we have already pointed out, warns or identifies virtues, issues associated with the

morality, among other. It will also take care of comparing these images with others, for example corresponding to other times or to different authors, to establish new conclusions, interpretations, or to provide more information about the traditions and uses of the various tenses.

For instance, iconology has also focused especially on unraveling emblems and allegories, images loaded with enigmas and that only have a phrase that is what allows the ball to be unrolled, and the representation of ideas through shapes, objects or animals, respectively.

It is worth noting that depending on the object of study it is subdivided into the following branches: pagan iconology (focuses on the study of images that have to do with objects and cult characters), iconology civil (this branch is dedicated to those figures who have not had one responsibility religious but rather civil, politics) e religious iconology (He focuses on studying people of religion, saints, angels, and God himself).

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