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Iconology is a method of interpretation in cultural history and the history of the visual arts used by Aby Warburg, Erwin Panofsky and their followers that uncovers the cultural, social, and historical background of themes and subjects in the visual arts.[1] Though Panofsky differentiated between iconology and iconography, the distinction is not very widely followed, "and they have never been given definitions accepted by all iconographers and iconologists".[2] Few 21st-century authors continue to use the term "iconology" consistently, and instead use iconography to cover both areas of scholarship.

To those who use the term, iconology is derived from synthesis rather than scattered analysis and examines symbolic meaning on more than its face value by reconciling it with its historical context and with the artist's body of work[3] – in contrast to the widely descriptive iconography, which, as described by Panofsky, is an approach to studying the content and meaning of works of art that is primarily focused on classifying, establishing dates, provenance and other necessary fundamental knowledge concerning the subject matter of an artwork that is needed for further interpretation.[4]

Panofsky's "use of iconology as the principal tool of art analysis brought him critics." For instance, in 1946, Jan Gerrit Van Gelder "criticized Panofsky's iconology as putting too much emphasis on the symbolic content of the work of art, neglecting its formal aspects and the work as a unity of form and content."[5] Furthermore, iconology is mostly avoided by social historians who do not accept the theoretical dogmaticism in the work of Panofsky.[6]

In contrast to iconography

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Erwin Panofsky defines iconography as "a known principle in the known world", while iconology is "an iconography turned interpretive".[7] According to his view, iconology tries to reveal the underlying principles that form the basic attitude of a nation, a period, a class, a religious or philosophical perspective, which is modulated by one personality and condensed into one work.[8] According to Roelof van Straten, iconology "can explain why an artist or patron chose a particular subject at a specific location and time and represented it in a certain way. An iconological investigation should concentrate on the social-historical, not art-historical, influences and values that the artist might not have consciously brought into play but are nevertheless present. The artwork is primarily seen as a document of its time."[9]

Warburg used the term "iconography" in his early research, replacing it in 1908 with "iconology" in his particular method of visual interpretation called "critical iconology", which focused on the tracing of motifs through different cultures and visual forms.[10] In 1932, Panofsky published a seminal article, introducing a three-step method of visual interpretation dealing with (1) primary or natural subject matter; (2) secondary or conventional subject matter, i.e. iconography; (3) tertiary or intrinsic meaning or content, i.e. iconology.[11][12] Whereas iconography analyses the world of images, stories and allegories and requires knowledge of literary sources, an understanding of the history of types and how themes and concepts were expressed by objects and events under different historical conditions, iconology interprets intrinsic meaning or content and the world of symbolical values by using "synthetic intuition". The interpreter is aware of the essential tendencies of the human mind as conditioned by psychology and world view; he analyses the history of cultural symptoms or symbols, or how tendencies of the human mind were expressed by specific themes due to different historical conditions. Moreover, when understanding the work of art as a document of a specific civilization, or of a certain religious attitude therein, the work of art becomes a symptom of something else, which expresses itself in a variety of other symptoms. Interpreting these symbolical values, which can be unknown to, or different from, the artist's intention, is the object of iconology.[13] Panofsky emphasized that "iconology can be done when there are no originals to look at and nothing but artificial light to work in."[14]

According to Ernst Gombrich, "the emerging discipline of iconology ... must ultimately do for the image what linguistics has done for the word."[15] However, Michael Camille is of the opinion that "though Panofsky's concept of iconology has been very influential in the humanities and is quite effective when applied to Renaissance art, it is still problematic when applied to art from periods before and after."[16]

Nuances

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In 1952, Creighton Gilbert added another suggestion for a useful meaning of the word "iconology". According to his view, iconology was not the actual investigation of the work of art but rather the result of this investigation. The Austrian art historian Hans Sedlmayr differentiated between "sachliche" and "methodische" iconology. "Sachliche" iconology refers to the "general meaning of an individual painting or of an artistic complex (church, palace, monument) as seen and explained with reference to the ideas which take shape in them." In contrast, "methodische" iconology is the "integral iconography which accounts for the changes and development in the representations".[17] In Iconology: Images, Text, Ideology (1986), W.J.T. Mitchell writes that iconology is a study of "what to say about images", concerned with the description and interpretation of visual art, and also a study of "what images say" – the ways in which they seem to speak for themselves by persuading, telling stories, or describing.[18] He pleads for a postlinguistic, postsemiotic "iconic turn", emphasizing the role of "non-linguistic symbol systems".[19][20][21] Instead of just pointing out the difference between the material (pictorial or artistic) images, "he pays attention to the dialectic relationship between material images and mental images".[22] According to Dennise Bartelo and Robert Morton, the term "iconology" can also be used for characterizing "a movement toward seeing connections across all the language processes" and the idea about "multiple levels and forms used to communicate meaning" in order to get "the total picture” of learning. "Being both literate in the traditional sense and visually literate are the true mark of a well-educated human."[23]

For several years, new approaches to iconology have developed in the theory of images. This is the case of what Jean-Michel Durafour, French philosopher and theorist of cinema, proposed to call "econology", a biological approach to images as forms of life, crossing iconology, ecology and sciences of nature. In an econological regime, the image (eikon) self-speciates, that is to say, it self-iconicizes with others and eco-iconicizes with them its iconic habitat (oikos). The iconology, mainly Warburghian iconology, is thus merged with a conception of the relations between the beings of the nature inherited, among others (Arne Næss, etc.) from the writings of Kinji Imanishi. For Imanishi, living beings are subjects. Or, more precisely, the environment and the living being are just one. One of the main consequences is that the "specity", the living individual, "self-eco-speciates its place of life" (Freedom in Evolution). As far as the images are concerned: "If the living species self-specify, the images self-iconicize. This is not a tautology. The images update some of their iconic virtualities. They live in the midst of other images, past or present, but also future (those are only human classifications), which they have relations with. They self-iconicize in an iconic environment which they interact with, and which in particular makes them the images they are. Or more precisely, insofar as images have an active part: the images self-eco-iconicize their iconic environment.[24]"

Studies in iconology

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Studies in Iconology is the title of a book by Erwin Panofsky on humanistic themes in the art of the Renaissance, which was first published in 1939.[25] It is also the name of a peer-reviewed series of books started in 2014 under the editorship of Barbara Baert and published by Peeters international academic publishers, Leuven, Belgium, addressing the deeper meaning of the visual medium throughout human history in the fields of philosophy, art history, theology and cultural anthropology.[26]

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Iconology is a methodological approach in the that seeks to uncover the intrinsic meanings and cultural significance of visual images by interpreting them within their broader historical, psychological, and social contexts. Originating in the early through the work of , who emphasized the psychological underpinnings and historical transformations of visual symbols as expressions of cultural memory, iconology was systematized by in his 1939 publication Studies in Iconology. Unlike , which focuses on identifying and classifying the conventional subject matter or motifs in artworks—such as recognizing a figure as Saint Bartholomew by his attribute of a knife—iconology delves deeper to reveal how these elements reflect underlying attitudes, values, and intellectual principles of a given era or society. Panofsky outlined iconology as operating through a three-strata method of : the primary level, which perceives natural or primary subject matter without preconceptions; the secondary or iconographic level, which deciphers conventional meanings using historical and literary sources; and the intrinsic or iconological level, which synthesizes these to interpret the artwork's deeper symbolic content as a "cultural symptom." This approach requires not only factual knowledge but also a form of synthetic informed by , , and to bridge apparent discontinuities in artistic expression. Warburg's foundational contributions, through his Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg and studies of art's engagement with antiquity, laid the groundwork by viewing images as dynamic intervals between mimetic representation and symbolic meaning, influencing Panofsky's more structured framework. As a , iconology has profoundly shaped art historical scholarship by enabling interpretations that connect individual works to larger patterns of human expression, such as analyzing Titian's not just as a depiction of the virtue but as a personal testament to familial legacy amid concerns with mortality and continuity. Its emphasis on interdisciplinary has extended its application beyond traditional to , , and , underscoring the role of images in embodying collective cultural narratives.

Origins and Development

Aby Warburg's Foundations

(1866–1929), a German-Jewish and cultural theorist, laid the groundwork for iconology through his innovative approach to understanding the persistence of ancient symbols in later artistic traditions. In 1908, he introduced the term "iconology" within his method of "critical iconology," which emphasized tracing the migration and transformation of classical motifs across historical and cultural contexts, particularly their survival in . This approach was deeply intertwined with his establishment of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (Library for ) in , begun informally in the early 1900s and formalized as a in 1921, where scholars explored interdisciplinary connections between , philosophy, and social history to reveal the "afterlife" (Nachleben) of antiquity. A pivotal example of Warburg's method is his of Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus (c. 1485), which he interpreted as a manifestation of pagan revival within a Christian-dominated , blending with ideals under Medici patronage. In his 1893 dissertation and later writings, Warburg highlighted how the painting's dynamic elements—such as Venus's windswept hair, flowing draperies, and the gesturing figures of and the Hora—evoke ancient motifs of motion and , drawing from sources like Angelo Poliziano's Stanze per la Giostra (c. 1475–1478), the Homeric Hymn to , and texts by and . These features linked astrology (Venus as planetary ruler of April), dance (nymph-like poses suggesting ritualistic movement), and (idealized beauty reflecting Neoplatonic philosophy), illustrating how pagan symbols were reanimated to express psychological and cultural tensions between antiquity and the modern era. Central to Warburg's iconological framework was the concept of Pathosformel (pathos formula), introduced in his studies to describe recurring, emotionally charged visual tropes—such as gestural expressions of ecstasy or distress—that originated in and resurfaced in works as bridges between pagan antiquity and contemporary experience. These formulas captured collective psychological energies, allowing Warburg to map the irrational undercurrents of , as seen in the animated accessories (bewegtes Beiwerk) of Botticelli's compositions. The Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, formalized as a in 1921 and expanded with the library's new building opening in , served as the institutional hub for this research, fostering collaborative inquiries into symbol survival. Following Warburg's death in 1929 and the rise of , the institute—along with its 60,000-volume library and scholarly staff—was relocated intact to in 1933 by director Fritz Saxl, with support from the and British patrons like Lord Lee of Fareham, ensuring the method's preservation amid persecution of Jewish intellectuals. This migration safeguarded Warburg's intuitive, context-driven approach, which later influenced systematic refinements by scholars like .

Erwin Panofsky's Refinement

, building on the intuitive approaches of his predecessors, formalized iconology as a rigorous method for interpreting the cultural and philosophical dimensions of during his academic career spanning and the . In a seminal lecture, later published as the essay "Zum Problem der Beschreibung und Inhaltsdeutung von Werken der bildenden Kunst" in , Panofsky outlined the need for a synthetic approach to analysis that went beyond formal description to uncover underlying symbolic meanings embedded in historical contexts. This work laid the groundwork for his more expansive 1939 book, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the of the , where he explicitly credited Aby Warburg's foundational library and concepts like formulas as key precursors, while emphasizing iconology's goal of integrating with broader humanistic inquiry to reveal intrinsic cultural significance. Panofsky's Jewish-German heritage and the socio-political upheavals of the early profoundly influenced his development of iconology, fostering a cross-cultural perspective that bridged European traditions with American scholarship. Born in 1892 in to a Jewish family, he rose to prominence as a professor at the from 1920 to 1933, where he immersed himself in interdisciplinary studies of . The Nazi regime's rise in 1933 compelled his emigration from ; after briefly returning to supervise examinations, he relocated to the with his family, initially joining before becoming a permanent member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1935. This transatlantic journey not only preserved his rigorous German philological methods but also adapted them to the pluralistic intellectual environment of American academia, enriching iconology with a nuanced understanding of art's role in diverse cultural dialogues. Central to Panofsky's refinement of iconology was his conception of art as a "document of its time," demanding immersion in the historical, philosophical, and social milieus to access its deeper, intrinsic meanings rather than surface-level motifs. In Studies in Iconology, he argued that artworks encapsulate the "symbolic form" of their era, requiring scholars to synthesize primary sources, cultural documents, and to interpret how visual forms express epochal worldviews. This perspective positioned iconology as an essential tool for art historians, urging a holistic engagement that reveals how images, for instance, mediated with contemporary humanistic ideals. A representative example of Panofsky's application appears in his analysis of the "Blind Love" motif in 15th-century , detailed in Studies in Iconology. He traced the depiction of a blindfolded —symbolizing irrational passion—from ancient Roman sources like Ovid's through medieval allegories to works such as Francesco del Cossa's frescoes in the Palazzo Schifanoia, illustrating how this theme evolved to critique or reconcile sensual desire with Neoplatonic virtue in the context of early modern . Through such interpretations, Panofsky demonstrated iconology's power to connect discrete artistic elements to overarching cultural narratives, solidifying its place in scholarly practice.

Core Concepts and Methodology

Distinction from Iconography

, often described as the "history of types," concentrates on the classification and identification of motifs, symbols, and their established conventional meanings within works of . This approach involves deciphering the primary subject matter through attributes and narratives, such as recognizing saints by their iconic emblems like halos for divinity, keys for St. Peter, or knives for St. Bartholomew. By drawing on literary and historical sources, iconography establishes a systematic inventory of visual conventions, enabling the decoding of themes like biblical stories or mythological allegories without delving into broader interpretive contexts. In contrast, iconology functions as the "history of principles," extending beyond literal identification to investigate the underlying cultural attitudes, worldviews, and symbolic values embedded in artistic expressions. It synthesizes iconographic findings with , philosophical, and social insights to reveal how images reflect the intrinsic meanings and essential tendencies of a given era or . This method emphasizes a holistic interpretation, treating artworks as symptomatic of larger cultural phenomena rather than isolated repositories of fixed symbols. The divergence between these fields emerged historically, with iconography developing in the through philological traditions that cataloged visual motifs in medieval and . Adolphe-Napoléon Didron's seminal Christian Iconography; or, The History of in the (1886) exemplified this by systematically documenting symbolic types from manuscripts and sculptures, grounding the discipline in textual and comparative analysis. , however, arose in the 20th century within , pioneered by figures like and refined by , who shifted focus toward interpretive synthesis informed by interdisciplinary evidence. For instance, in examining a scene, would identify the central figure as Christ, accompanied by attributes like the , nails, and mourning , based on representations. Iconology, building on this, would probe how the composition embodies era-specific theological emphases or social tensions, such as Reformation-era critiques of Catholic . Panofsky's framework aligns the first two levels of interpretation—pre-iconographical and iconographical analysis—more closely with iconographic methods, reserving the third for iconology's synthetic depth.

Three Levels of Interpretation

outlined a hierarchical method for interpreting in his 1939 , distinguishing three progressively deeper levels of that move from surface to profound cultural insight. This framework positions as an extension of , requiring a foundation in the "history of types"—the study of recurring motifs and conventional meanings—before advancing to the " of principles," which uncovers underlying artistic and cultural dynamics. The first level, known as pre-iconographical description or natural subject matter, involves the factual recognition of primary or secondary visual elements based on practical experience. Here, the viewer identifies basic forms, objects, events, and expressions without symbolic , such as recognizing a man riding a or distinguishing figures, animals, and architectural details in a like Titian's . This stage relies on familiarity with everyday objects and events but is corrected by knowledge of stylistic history to account for how forms evolve across periods, ensuring accurate perception beyond mere . The second level, iconographical analysis, ascends to conventional subject matter by attributing literary or cultural meanings to these elements through motifs and themes. Drawing on sources like , , or mythology, it identifies standardized representations, for instance, recognizing a figure with a club and lion skin as or a group of thirteen men at a table as the from biblical narratives. This process demands familiarity with artistic types and is grounded in the history of types, which traces how specific stories or allegories are conventionally depicted over time. The third and highest level, iconological interpretation, delves into the intrinsic meaning or content of the work, synthesizing the prior levels through "synthetic intuition" to reveal broader historical, philosophical, or cultural principles. It examines how symbols reflect the "Weltanschauung" of an era or individual, such as interpreting a horse not just as a mount but as embodying power dynamics in a particular historical context, or viewing Titian's three animal heads in Allegory of Prudence as symbolizing familial succession across past, present, and future. Corrected by the history of cultural symptoms, this intuitive faculty—echoing Aby Warburg's pathos formulas in its emphasis on emotional and symbolic resonances—demands a deep understanding of the human mind's tendencies shaped by personal and epochal worldviews.

Applications and Studies

Renaissance Humanism

Iconology found its primary application in the analysis of Renaissance art, where scholars like Erwin Panofsky employed it to uncover how humanistic themes served as a bridge between classical antiquity and Christian Europe, revealing the intellectual synthesis driving artistic expression. In his seminal work Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939), Panofsky applied iconological methods—drawing on the three levels of interpretation to move from formal description to intrinsic meaning and cultural symptom—to dissect motifs that embodied the era's philosophical tensions. This approach illuminated how artists integrated pagan myths with biblical narratives, reflecting humanism's emphasis on human potential and rational inquiry over medieval dogmatism. A key example is Panofsky's examination of Piero di Cosimo's two cycles of paintings depicting the "Early History of Man," where he interpreted scenes of human invention and moral evolution as fusing Neoplatonic ideas of cosmic harmony with biblical accounts of creation and the Fall. In works such as Vulcan and as Teachers of Mankind, Panofsky argued that the motifs of fire-making and pastoral life symbolized humanity's progressive mastery over nature, informed by texts like Lucretius's and Ovid's , yet tempered by Christian toward redemption. This analysis highlighted iconology's role in tracing how artists visualized the humanistic narrative of intellectual ascent, blending empirical observation with allegorical depth to affirm man's central place in the . The "Garden of Love" motif further exemplifies this synthesis, as interpreted through iconological lenses in Renaissance paintings like Sandro Botticelli's Primavera (c. 1482), where enclosed gardens merge medieval allegories of —rooted in the —with individualistic expressions of erotic and intellectual fulfillment drawn from classical sources. , whose foundational ideas influenced Panofsky, described such gardens as revived spaces of pagan renewal, where figures like and the Graces embody a humanistic ideal of beauty as both sensual and philosophical, transitioning from scholastic abstraction to embodied human experience. This motif thus captured the era's shift toward celebrating personal agency within a harmonized cosmos. Warburg's own contributions emphasized the revival of antique gestures in Florentine art, particularly in Antonio del Pollaiuolo's engravings such as the Battle of the Nudes (c. 1470–1475), where dynamic poses and muscular torsos echo Roman sarcophagi and triumphal reliefs, infusing Christian with classical vitality. Warburg termed these recurring forms "Pathosformeln," emotive formulas that transmitted ancient emotional intensity into works, as seen in Pollaiuolo's depictions of Herculean labors, which celebrated human striving and physical prowess. Through such studies, iconology demonstrated how Florentine artists, advised by humanists like Angelo Poliziano, repurposed antique gestures to express a renewed sense of individual heroism and cultural continuity. Overall, iconology's application to revealed the period's cultural transition from scholasticism's theological focus to a more anthropocentric worldview, using as primary evidence of this . By decoding motifs in paintings and engravings, scholars like and Panofsky showed how documented the emulation of , fostering a synthesis that elevated human reason and creativity as cornerstones of European thought. This methodological insight not only enriched historical understanding but also underscored humanism's transformative impact on Western intellectual traditions.

Modern Visual Culture

In the mid-20th century, Ernst Gombrich extended iconological methods by integrating the psychology of perception, emphasizing how viewers' expectations and cultural schemas shape the interpretation of images beyond mere description. In his seminal work Art and Illusion (1960), Gombrich explored pictorial representation as a process influenced by information theory and visual learning, adapting Panofsky's interpretive levels to account for the subjective, illusionistic nature of art in modern contexts like advertising and mass media. This psychological dimension allowed iconology to address how images in film and print culture manipulate perception to convey ideological messages. Building on these foundations in the 1990s, advanced iconology through the concept of the "pictorial turn," which highlighted the dominance of visual media in contemporary and its implications for politics and culture. Mitchell's Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (1986) and subsequent essays argued for analyzing images as active agents in social discourse, particularly in media representations of conflict, such as war imagery that mobilizes public emotion and power dynamics. For instance, his framework has been applied to dissect how photographic and cinematic depictions of warfare, from to the , embed ideological narratives that influence and policy. In the , iconology has further evolved to encompass digital and ecological dimensions of . French philosopher and cinema theorist Jean-Michel Durafour introduced "econology" as an extension of iconological analysis, conceptualizing images as non-organic life forms that interact biologically with their environments, beyond anthropocentric views, to explore visual symbols in and media. This approach links visual symbols to broader ecological dynamics, influencing applications in sustainability studies where iconology interprets environmental —such as depictions of in advertisements or —to reveal societal worldviews on resource use and planetary stewardship. Iconological readings of modern visual artifacts, like propaganda posters, uncover embedded cultural ideologies of and otherness through symbolic motifs such as heroic figures and demonic enemies, adapting traditional methods to mass-produced media. Similarly, analyses of memes apply iconology to digital imagery, tracing how viral formats layer historical symbols with contemporary to expose ideologies around identity, power, and in online networks.

Criticisms and Nuances

Methodological Limitations

One prominent critique of iconology's came from Dutch art historian Jan Gerrit van Gelder, who in his 1946 inaugural lecture argued that Erwin Panofsky's approach placed excessive emphasis on the symbolic content of artworks, thereby neglecting their formal and stylistic dimensions. This imbalance, van Gelder contended, reduced the method's ability to engage fully with the aesthetic qualities that define artistic expression. Social historians have frequently sidestepped traditional iconology due to its perceived , which prioritizes universal symbolic interpretations over the concrete social contexts of production and reception, including class structures and relations. For instance, Marxist variants of iconology in mid-20th-century reoriented the method toward , viewing religious imagery as veiled representations of social struggle rather than timeless humanistic ideals, highlighting how Panofsky's framework often overlooked such material dynamics. A key vulnerability lies in iconology's third level of interpretation, which depends on "synthetic " to uncover intrinsic cultural meanings—a Panofsky himself described as inherently subjective, shaped by the interpreter's personal and . Without stringent historical contextualization, this reliance on can lead to anachronistic readings that project modern assumptions onto past artifacts. In the 1930s, Austrian art historian Hans Sedlmayr further illuminated these issues by distinguishing between "factual" (sachliche) iconology, concerned with the objective general meaning of motifs, and "methodical" (methodische) iconology, which he criticized for its excessive dependence on subjective at the expense of empirical rigor. Sedlmayr's framework underscored how the latter's intuitive elements risked blurring into mere speculation, distancing the method from verifiable historical analysis.

Interdisciplinary Evolutions

Building on the foundational frameworks established by and , iconology has transcended its origins in to influence diverse disciplines, adapting its methods for interpreting symbols and images in broader cultural contexts. In literary studies, iconology facilitates the interpretation of embedded in texts, particularly through explorations of visual-verbal relations in theory. W. J. T. Mitchell's seminal work exemplifies this extension, as his Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation (1994) analyzes the interplay between images and language, applying iconological principles to uncover ideological underpinnings in and media. Mitchell argues that verbal and visual representations are mutually constitutive, enabling scholars to decode structures through an iconological lens that emphasizes cultural and historical signification. Anthropological applications of iconology center on the analysis of cultural symbols within ethnographic contexts, enriching interpretive approaches to material and . Hans Belting's "Image, Medium, Body: A New Approach to Iconology" (2005) integrates anthropological perspectives by viewing images not merely as representations but as media experienced through the body and embedded in social practices, thus bridging art historical iconology with ethnographic studies of symbolism and . This framework has informed analyses of how symbols function in and daily life, prioritizing lived cultural experiences over formal description. Developments in the digital era have further propelled iconology into the , where it supports visual analysis via computational tools. Post-2010 initiatives, such as those within the aggregation, leverage AI for motif detection and iconographic extraction in vast cultural archives; for example, projects from the 2025 AI4Culture employ large language models to parse unstructured historical texts and images, structuring on and to enable scalable interpretive research. Complementing this, models like the one proposed by Baroncini et al. (2021) formalize iconological interpretation through ontologies, allowing for machine-readable descriptions of artwork meanings in relation to socio-cultural contexts and facilitating interdisciplinary digital scholarship. Recent scholarship continues to drive these evolutions, with Barbara Baert's Studies in Iconology series—launched in 2014—extending the field to relic studies and medieval . Edited by Baert, the series integrates iconological methods with and , examining relics as dynamic symbols that embody devotion, , and sensory experiences in historical contexts, as seen in volumes exploring motifs like and enclosed gardens. This work underscores iconology's role in hybrid analyses of tangible and intangible heritage.

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