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Iconoclasm (from Gr****: εἰκών, eikṓn, 'figure, icon' + κλάω, kláō, 'to break') is the
social belief in the
importance of the
destruction of
icons and other...
- The
Byzantine Iconoclasm (Ancient Gr****: Εἰκονομαχία, romanized: Eikonomachía, lit. 'image struggle', 'war on icons') were two
periods in the
history of...
- pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was
disturbed by
Byzantine iconoclasm and the
advance of the Lombards, in
which he
invoked the intervention...
- more
religious than
aesthetic in nature:
especially after the end of
iconoclasm, they were
understood to
manifest the
unique "presence" of the figure...
- 867. The
Amorian dynasty continued the
policy of
restored iconoclasm (the "Second
Iconoclasm")
started by the
previous non-dynastic
emperor Leo V in 813...
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which was destro****
twice during the
first and
second waves of
Byzantine Iconoclasm—first in 726, and
again in 814—and thus its
connection with the Christ...
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English as the
Great Iconoclasm or
Iconoclastic Fury and in
French as the
Furie iconoclaste.
During these spates of
iconoclasm,
Catholic art and many...
- In some
forms of
Islamic art,
aniconism (the
avoidance of
images of
sentient beings)
stems in part from the
prohibition of
idolatry and in part from the...
- in
Christian history,
notably during the
controversy of the
Byzantine iconoclasm of the
eighth century, and
following the
Protestant Reformation of the...
- Look up
iconoclasm, iconoclast, iconoclastic, or
iconoclasts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An
iconoclast is one who
professes iconoclasm (the belief...