Iconography n. : The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

Iconography n. : The study of representative art in general.

Example:
What is the Iconography behind Temple Architecture?

Taxonomy
iconography, painting, Christian iconography, art history, depictions, theory, religious iconography, Iconography of the Buddha, Christian art, collections, religious painting, free encyclopedia, distinction, discipline, Iconclass, Christ, Mary, specialists.

Defination from the web:
iconography in art history; for religious painting in Eastern Christianity, see Icon. Holbein's The Ambassadors is a complex work whose iconography remains the subject of debate ...