Early Kushan images show Ardhanarishvara in a simple two-armed form, but later texts and sculptures depict a more complex iconography.
By the time our group set off to Middle Egypt, I had decided to stop worrying and enjoy myself, instead of battling with 5,000 years' worth of complex iconography.
Complicated as the paintings are in form, they also embody complex private iconographies, now mostly inaccessible.
Pages 47 through 56 show a variety of deities, sacrifices, and other complex iconography.
Religious images are used to some extent by all major religions, including both Indian and Abrahamic faiths, and often contain highly complex iconography, which reflects centuries of accumulated tradition.
Often these beings are depicted in humanoid or partially humanoid forms, complete with a set of unique and complex iconography in each case.
Like many medieval works of art, the Madonna displays a very complex iconography.
Such artists made significant advances in natural representation and illusionism, and their work often features complex iconography.
Religious images are used to some extent by the Abrahamic Christian faith, and often contain highly complex iconography, which reflects centuries of accumulated tradition.
But it has been found to have all the hallmarks of a classic Mayan city: kings, complex iconography, grand palaces, polychrome ceramics and writing.