Iconoclasm
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- | [[Image:Gheerhaets Allegory iconoclasm.jpg|thumb|''The image breakers'', c.[[1566]] –[[1568]] by [[Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder]] The etching is also known as ''Allegory of Iconoclasm''. Although not particularly sympathetic to the [[Calvinist]] [[image breaker]]s, it is mainly critical of the [[Church]]. Thus the etching might have been the main reason why Gheeraerts had to flee to England in 1568. (British Museum, Dept. of Print and Drawings, 1933.1.1..3)]] | + | [[Image:Gheerhaets Allegory iconoclasm.jpg|200px|thumb|''The image breakers'', c.[[1566]] –[[1568]] by [[Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder]] The etching is also known as ''Allegory of Iconoclasm''. Although not particularly sympathetic to the [[Calvinist]] [[image breaker]]s, it is mainly critical of the [[Church]]. Thus the etching might have been the main reason why Gheeraerts had to flee to England in 1568. (British Museum, Dept. of Print and Drawings, 1933.1.1..3)]] |
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'''Iconoclasm''' is the deliberate [[destruction]] within a [[culture]] of the culture's own [[religion|religious]] [[icon]]s and other [[symbol]]s or monuments, usually for [[religious]] or political motives. It is a frequent component of major political or religious changes. It is thus generally distinguished from the destruction by one culture of the images of another, for example by the Spanish in their American conquests. The term is also not generally used of the specific destruction of images of a ruler after his death or overthrow (''[[damnatio memoriae]]''), for example [[Akhenaten]] in [[Ancient Egypt]]. {{GFDL}} | '''Iconoclasm''' is the deliberate [[destruction]] within a [[culture]] of the culture's own [[religion|religious]] [[icon]]s and other [[symbol]]s or monuments, usually for [[religious]] or political motives. It is a frequent component of major political or religious changes. It is thus generally distinguished from the destruction by one culture of the images of another, for example by the Spanish in their American conquests. The term is also not generally used of the specific destruction of images of a ruler after his death or overthrow (''[[damnatio memoriae]]''), for example [[Akhenaten]] in [[Ancient Egypt]]. {{GFDL}} |
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Iconoclasm is the deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture's own religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. It is a frequent component of major political or religious changes. It is thus generally distinguished from the destruction by one culture of the images of another, for example by the Spanish in their American conquests. The term is also not generally used of the specific destruction of images of a ruler after his death or overthrow (damnatio memoriae), for example Akhenaten in Ancient Egypt.
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