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Editorial from Exhibo and official announcements from Brooklyn Museum.

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Guide

Iconography: How to Read Symbols in Art

Panofsky’s three levels, attributes and source-checking: a method for reading Western pictures without treating every object as a code.

Iconography in art history is a method: name what you see, match it to a conventional type, then test that match against a dated source. This guide walks Panofsky’s levels, Ripa and ICONCLASS, and six museum works from Botticelli to Beuys, and keeps Christian saints, MENA symbol lists and the Symbolist movement on their own pages.