Question

What do you mean by sculpture iconography and ornamentation?

Answer 1

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Sculptures, Iconography, and Ornamentation. Iconography is a branch of art history which studies the images of deities. It consists of identification of image based on certain symbols and mythology associated with them.

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Answer 2

Iconography is the study of identifying, describing, classifying, and interpreting symbols, themes, and subject matter in the visual arts. Ornamentation in architecture refers to applied embellishment in a variety of forms that differentiates buildings, furniture, and household items.

Iconography became more concentrated in the nineteenth century on the appearance and significance of religious symbols in art.

Iconography

• It entails the identification of an image based on its symbolism and mythology.

• Despite the fact that the deity's underlying myth and meaning have stayed intact for millennia, the deity's specific use in a location can be a reaction to the local or immediate social, political, or geographic environment.

• Every location and time period has its own picture style, with regional iconography variations.

• The most well-known of these works is Cesare Ripa's Iconologia.

Ornamentation

• Ornamentation, particularly in the shape of mouldings, can be found on entablatures, columns, and the tops of buildings, as well as around entryways and windows.

• The applied ornament was very important in antiquity and into the Renaissance, and later for religious buildings, and had a lot of symbolic meaning.

• On ancient Greek cornice mouldings, the anthemion flower motif was highly popular.

• The Egyptian cartouche (oval), capital fretwork (banding), column fluting and reeding, bas-relief egg-and-dart mouldings (with alternating oval and pointed forms), and Ionic capital scrollwork

These terms are also used to define the content of images, the conventional depiction of a subject in images, and associated senses in a range of academic subjects outside of art history, such as semiotics and media studies, as well as in ordinary English.