The Emergence of Sibling Cultures (600-750) - Iconoclasm
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What ways took Christian material form?
- Pious tomb inscriptions
- Saintly relics
Why was a cult of images as important as a cult of saints?
What were many reliquaries decorated with?
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What importance did images have?
What was Byzantium confronted with in the late seventh century?
What explanation is there for the things that happened in Byzantium?
What happened at the Synod of 754?
- At the Synod of 754, over 300 bishops and the emperor himself banned sacred images outright.
- Their decrees made clear how material representations threatened, according to iconoclasts, to befoul the purity of the divine.
How did Christ himself declare how he should be represented?
What did iconoclastic churchmen worry about?
What example of iconoclastic obliteration remains from Hagia Sophia?
Artists of the iconoclastic period were commissioned to depict (depending on the use of the building) ornaments, trees, birds, hunting, horse races, and other non-sacred motifs. Why did iconoclasts do this?
Was iconoclasm a success or a failure?
- Iconoclasm was an utter failure, though the ban on icons lasted until 787 and was revived, in modified form, between 815 and 843.
- Not only did the iconoclastic movement come to an end, but during the eighth century the position of those who supported icons, already argued at the Quinisext Council, was elaborated at great length in learned treatises. Henceforth, the veneration of holy images in the Byzantine (Eastern Orthodox) Church was a normal part of its religious practices.
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