Iconoclasm and its Consequences on the Artistical Plan
Iconoclasm and its Consequences on the Artistical Plan

Summary/Abstract: The icon dogma has the dogma of the embodiment of Christ as its starting point. The defenders of icons sustained the idea that Christ can be represented not as the unseen divinity, but as the embodied God. On the contrary, the iconoclasts rejected the separation of natures, and they confessed their unseparated union. In year 843, Empress Theodora put an end to iconoclasm and she proclaimed the return to the worship of images. In the meanwhile, the reproduction of faces in icons got simplified, the chromatic range lost some of its Impressionistic nuances. The creation of icons became the artists’ task, but the order was established by the tradition of the church.

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