ico·nog·ra·phy
Etymology: Medieval Latin iconographia, from Greek eikonographia sketch, description, from eikonographein to describe, from eikon- + graphein to write -- more at CARVE
Date: 1678
1 : pictorial material relating to or illustrating a subject
2 : the traditional or conventional images or symbols associated with a subject and especially a religious or legendary subject
3 : the imagery or symbolism of a work of art, an artist, or a body of art
4 : ICONOLOGY
 
 
 

Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night,
Saint-Rémy: June, 1889  
Oil on canvas  73 x 92 cm.
Post Impressionist
Caspar David Friederich, 
Cloister Cemetery in the Snow
1817-19 Oil on canvas 121 x 170 cm
Destroyed 1945, 
formerly in the National Gallery, Berlin
only black and white and poor color images survived
German Romantic Painter (Romanticism)
 
 

Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night,
Saint-Rémy: June, 1889  
Oil on canvas  73 x 92 cm.
Post Impressionist
Shen Zhou, (Shen Chou) 
Poet on a Mountain,  c1500
leaf from an album of landscapes: paintings mounted as part of a handscroll.  Ink and color on paper. 15.25"x 23.75"
Ming Dynasty
 
 

 
 
 
 


Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night, Saint-Rémy: June, 1889
Oil on canvas  73 x 92 cm.Post Impressionist

context

Etymology: Middle English, weaving together of words, from Latin contextus connection of words, coherence, from contexere to weave
 together, from com- + texere to weave

1 : the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning

 2 : the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs : ENVIRONMENT, SETTING

contextual analysis
Is the analysis of a work by discussing its history, culture and or background.