{Byzantine Art: Iconoclasm}[21st February 1991]

[Redbook8:277-283][19910221:1142f]{Byzantine Art: Iconoclasm}[21st February 1991]

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‘Iconoclasm (726-843).* A reaction to the growing “abuse” of icons came under the militarily highly successful Iconoclastic Emperors. From the 720’s until 843[CE] figurative icons were forbidden in Byzantine churches (there was a brief interlude between 780 and 815, when iconodoules** again sat on the throne). Since there had always been a current of opposition to the use of icons in the Christian Church, and since Iconoclasm was contemporary with a rejection of figurative religious art in the Jewish and Muslim worlds,*** it is reasonable to interpret the ban on images in Byzantium as a genuine religious movement, as a positive attempt to promote a new Christian nonfigurative art. Byzantine mosaicists who worked for Muslim patrons in Jerusalem (Dome of the Rock, c[irca]691) **** and Damascus (Great Mosque, 705-7) show that they had already experienced composing on a monumental scale without figures.’

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*2048U~768

**[sic – the opposite of iconoclasts! (also spelt iconodule)]

***(my emphasis)

****{ref IX. [[Redbook9:126-127][19910415:0840dd]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] The Dome of the Rock (1)}[15th April 1991],] 127,

[[Redbook9:149-150][19910421:1410]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] The Dome of the Rock (2) [continued (3)]}[21st April 1991],] 148-9,

[[Redbook9:150-151][19910421:1410c]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] The Great Mosque at Damascus}[21st April 1991]&f,] 150-1}

#– E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 3:376

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