Iconography

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A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

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What Wikipedia says

Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.

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Image: Jan van Eyck, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.