Ideas & Culture · 730
Byzantine Iconoclasm
1296
Years
ago
0
Movements
active
—
Artists
working
—
Works dated
705–755
Emperor Leo III's ban on religious images, and its violent enforcement, triggered the first sustained Western debate about what images are, what they do, and whether they are dangerous. Every subsequent argument about censorship, sacred imagery, and art's power descends directly from this crisis.
Sources
