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The Icon Debate


Iconoclastic Controversy | Description, History, & Facts - Britannica

Iconoclastic Controversy, a dispute over the use of religious images (icons) in the Byzantine Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries. The Iconoclasts (those ...

Byzantine Iconoclasm - Wikipedia

The Byzantine term for the debate over religious imagery, iconomachy, means "struggle over images" or "image struggle". Some sources also say that the ...

The Icon Debate - Peter Lang Verlag

'21. This book aims at presenting the changes in the Russian icon painting and theological reflection in the 15th and the 16th centuries. As the title suggests, ...

Icons and Iconoclasm in Byzantium | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

In the Byzantine world, Iconoclasm refers to a theological debate involving both the Byzantine church and state. The controversy spanned roughly a century, ...

The Icon Controversy - Christian History Made Easy - YouTube

Click here to read more about this amazing Christian History study series: ...

The Icon Controversy - Blogos

Icons were religious images often used for prayer, devotion, and for many even worship. This of course caused many to remain in protest against their ...

Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Triumph of Orthodoxy - Smarthistory

According to traditional accounts, Iconoclasm was prompted by emperor Leo III removing an icon of Christ from the Chalke Gate of the imperial palace in ...

The Icon Debate: Religious Images in Russia in the 15th and 16th ...

The book explores the subject of Russian icons and their changes as well as the discussion on art that unfolded in Russia in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Iconoclasm - American Association of Iconographers

This controversy tore apart the Byzantine Empire, pitting the iconodules, who venerated icons as a logical progression of Christian art, against ...

Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Triumph of Orthodoxy - Khan Academy

So while the iconoclasm controversy was raging in Byzantium, Charlemagne's "Holy Roman Empire" affirmed iconodule (image-loving) doctrine. The differing ...

Iconoclasm - The Fitzwilliam Museum

The Fitzwilliam ivory is an icon of Christ. Iconoclasm means the deliberate destruction of such images. And between 726 and 843 CE, an impassioned debate was ...

The Icon Debate: Religious Images in Russia in the 15th and 16th ...

The book explores the subject of Russian icons and their changes as well as the discussion on art that unfolded in Russia in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Early Christian Theology and the Iconoclastic Controversy

The key disagreements among iconoclasts (those who oppose images) and iconodules (iconophiles, iconographes--those who approve and love images) were expressed ...

Iconoclasm Debate

In this debate, you will be arguing the sides that were actually argued in the course of the iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.

The Icon Debate: Religious Images in Russia in the 15th and 16th ...

The book explores the subject of Ruthenian icons and their changes as well as the discussion on art that unfolded in Ruthenia in the 15th ...

Byzantine Iconoclasm | Overview & History - Lesson - Study.com

The iconoclasm controversy debated whether an icon violated the Second Commandment prohibiting idolatry. Iconoclasts argued that it did, creating too close ...

Iconoclastic Controversy in the Middle Ages | Church History

... controversy arose, especially within the Eastern Orthodox Church, regarding the use of icons in religious worship and instruction. An icon ...

Iconoclasm - Wikipedia

Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy depicting the "Triumph of Orthodoxy" over ... debate. Government-led iconoclasm began with Byzantine Emperor Leo ...

Art History

In the Byzantine world, Iconoclasm refers to a theological debate involving both the Byzantine church and state. The controversy spanned roughly a century,.

II The Iconoclast Controversy 726–843 - Oxford Academic

Abstract. The introductory part discusses the growing cult of the icon in the Orthodox Church and the controversies that this gave rise to in the period 72.