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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4972577, member: 111037&quot;]Well, let&#039;s face it. Iconoclasm was a big whammy for the society and a very controversial one. The man on the street and the lower rank clergy never supported it and that&#039;s why icons eventually made a comeback. It was a sad chapter even for non-Christians as it led to the loss of vast amounts of amazing art. Thank God we still have Ravvena,&nbsp; but the sad reality is that in the whole Greece and Turkey there are only fragments of pre-iconoclasm mosaic art left. It is said that one of the inspirations for the iconoclastic movement was the new and emerging Islamic ideas about divine representation. Even if that is the case, the destruction of all that art was an own goal really...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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