This book offers a compass for orienting oneself in the landscape of images: the iconosphere. Each chapter moves from an exemplary case to tackle a specific problem and consider the method that our cultural tradition has developed to solve it: semiotics, Gestalt psychology, formalism, iconology, energetics, phenomenology, ontology, psychoanalysis, theories of the figural, neuroaesthetics, the analytic philosophy of depiction, visual culture studies, without neglecting the horizons opened up by new virtual and augmented reality technologies and artificial intelligence. The volume closes with a reflection on the thorny question of the abstract image.