Concept in Definition ABC

Historically, the human being has focused on the study of images because he considered that of them, of each one, or even of a set, you could obtain knowledge, details and a lot of information about a certain moment, time, situation or person. Even through the images, the way in which it is linked to one another, symbolic relationships and allegories could be made.

Although then this descriptive study of images, paintings and even monuments, ancient preferably, he was always active and present in all the times of man, he would begin to do it with a greater rigor in the 19th century and the following and would be formally called iconography.
The mission then of the discipline is to make a report descriptive on the subject or the situation that the images that are considered return us. And in this obviously, the attributes and symbols that appear will be especially considered because they will also have a lot to say about the time and the subject..

The main value of iconography is that through a painting, for example, what is represented in it: characters, theme, symbols, clothing, Among others, added to the consideration of the time in which it was painted, the artist who did it, you can obtain a panorama of the social, political, economical and

cultural that characterized a geographical place, or even a person.

Without a doubt they are the religion Christianity and classical mythology, the themes on which iconography has focused the most. In the specific case of thematic religious, iconography, has gradually gone through its analysis and study, identifying the fundamental elements that frame a painting in this gender of Christian paintings. And of course, the same goes for everything inherent to the myths, legends and gods that belonged to classical antiquity; For example, when we study some of these gods we will find that their different Representations always represent the distinctive physical attributes and characteristics attributed to the God.
For example, the presence of these components is what ultimately they count will allow decide whether or not a work belongs to a genre.

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