In a book history of иконологии is presented as the method of interpretation, folded in modern искусствознании due to Аби Варбургу and to his circle. Research actuality is related to that science about an art spares all more attention to the comprehension of own history and methodology. That it is accepted to name иконологической tradition, there is the difficult enough phenomenon, on forming of that influenced and interest in an iconography and positivism are 19 century, and afterwards is neokantian philosophy, philosophical hermeneutics, Viennese positivism, analytical and existential psychology. Иконологический дискурс includes such scientists, as Ф. Заксль, Э. Панофский, Э. Винд, Э. Гомбрих, Э. Кассирер, Л. Бинсвангер, Я. Бялостоцкий. The sources not translated before into the Russian language are used in our research and quoted.A book is addressed to wide to the circle of readers : to both the scientific specialists and students, interested in history of art and science history, культурологией, psychology, philosophy.