The Emperor and the Icon

The Emperor and the Icon

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The emperor has been credited with many things, why not icons? Modern art historians have enthusiastically Decking Accessories subscribed to a theory crediting the emperor with a major role in the development of icons, brushing aside all evidence to the contrary, whether archaeological or literary.But early sources on the Christian icon consistently parallel it not with emperor cult, but with the private icon cult observable among the pagans, and a large body of Late Chicken Antique pagan icons (at least 30) has survived into the twentieth century with close similarities to early Byzantine icons.