The Iconoclasm dispute was a struggle against the reliance on monastic art to venerate religious figures, and despite its ultimate failure, it did succeed in opening up Byzantine art and culture ...

The discovery of early Christian art at Shivta is especially significant ... was banned during the first of two periods of Byzantine iconoclasm. The earliest known image of Jesus dates from ...

The curator of the Brooklyn Museum, which has more than 1,200 items in its collection of Egyptian art, told Holly Keris ... and March 24 on Egyptian iconoclasm, byzantine iconoclasm, reformation ...

It was in the early years of the eighth century A.D., that the emperor of Byzantine Rome had a serious ... and no small amount of erotic art. So when physical church buildings began to flourish ...

In actuality, the iconclasts were the losers in the iconoclast controversy, when, in 787 at the Second Council of Nicea, called by the Byzantine empress ... negative sort of iconoclasm popular in the ...

“Thus far, it is the only in situ baptism-of-Christ scene to date confidently to the pre-iconoclastic ... illuminate Byzantine Shivta’s Christian community and Early Christian art across ...

as art, they are perceived to be an offence in aesthetic or intellectual terms (or even in terms of belief) does the term iconoclasm apply, and I have some sympathy with the New Yorker so offended ...