Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [concepts in the arts and humanities]
5. [historical, theoretical, and critical concepts]
6. [historical, theoretical and critical concepts for visual arts]

Anotations

Scope note:

A method of interpreting the meaning of a work of art by synthesising iconography with the full historical context. Iconology is a broader approach than iconography to analysis of meaning in the visual arts, taking account of the tradition of pictorial motifs and their historical, cultural, or social meaning. In a more narrow sense, refers to the study of icons and their specific subjects.