Iconclass: Visual Language and Symbol Classification

Iconclass is a classification system for art and iconography. The dataset likely contains structured codes and descriptions for visual symbols and themes. It was published on HuggingFace by davanstrien and last updated on September 10, 2025.

Use Cases

• Training a classifier to identify iconographic themes in artworks (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Building a knowledge graph linking artistic symbols across periods (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Enhancing multimodal models for art description and analysis (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on HuggingFace, a major open data platform.
• Last updated on September 10, 2025.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Row count, file formats, and column definitions are unknown.
• License information is unavailable.

Provenance

Source

HuggingFace

Freshness

Last updated 2025-09-10 20:27:16