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George Floyd | Race and religion | protests | iconoclasm

Protests, Looting, and Iconoclasm

Considering how Christian acts of iconoclasm may illuminate the aims and effects of property damage and looting during protests...

June 4, 2020

Smart Museum of Art | medieval Europe | German Mysticism | Meister Eckhart | Sedes sapientiae | Throne of Wisdom | Throne of Solomon | iconoclasm | John of Damascus | Madonna and child

Medieval Art at the Smart: Mary as Vessel-Like Throne for the Christ-Child, Personification of Wisdom

edieval Virgin-and-Child statues like the one owned by the Smart Museum of Art were once the most ubiquitous type of medieval devotional image. ...

July 23, 2015