Aniconisme militant

 



"Head wearing the fillet of a victor. Probably detached from a sculpture of the post-classical period. Beauty was purified (or exiled?) by carving the cross. The religious fanaticism that followed the entrenchment of Christianity, after its recognition by Constantine the Great, swept away sculpted masterpieces of the classical period. The end of Antiquity is proclaimed by this act of purification. The superb head was defaced and covered by a cross. An era had ended, the ancient world was fading, and a new order emerging that would impose its own order on anything that annoyed it"
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