In art history, the study of the conventional meanings of iconographic art, which is art that is meant to convey some doctrine or traditional story. The iconographer identifies the saints represented on cathedral windows, for example, by noting the tools or animals that were included in the pictures specifically for the sake of identification.
There is a vaguer popular sense of the term: a list of the familiar character types, cliches, and celebrities in a given field.
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