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Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 36) by Jaroslav Pelikan; With a New Foreword by Judith Herrin is a art available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><b>A sweeping account of the controversies surrounding the worship of images in the early Byzantine church</b><br><br>In 726, the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive that was later endorsed by a synod of the church in 753 under his son, Constantine V. If the policy of Iconoclasm had succeeded, the entire history of Christian art—and of the Christian church, at least in the East—would have been altered.<br><br>Ic

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Author
Jaroslav Pelikan; With a New Foreword by Judith Herrin
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9780691141251
Category
art
Subjects
Religion, Art, Christian
Updated
2026-03-25

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