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My goal is to examine the notion of idolatry in Byzantium from an art historical perspective and provide a comprehensive overview of how idols were represented in Byzantine artistic culture from the ninth to fifteenth centuries. Such representations were not familiar to pagantoGreco-Roman art, which typically typically incorporated images of cult objects (usually or reliefs) into contexts where incorporated images of cult objects (usually statuesstatues or reliefs) into contexts where such such objects legitimately allowed. I will examine some significant examples of the use of idols as signs of distance and ethnic otherness . . .
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