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Christianity defeated and wiped out the old faith of the pagans. Then with great fervour and diligence it strove to cast out and utterly destroy every last possible occasion of sin; and in doing so it ruined or demolished all the marvelous statues, besides the other sculptures, the pictures, mosaics and ornaments representing the false pagan gods; and as well as this it destroyed countless memorials and inscriptions left in honor of illustrious persons who had been commemorated by the genius of the ancient world in statues and other public monuments….their tremendous zeal was responsible for inflicting severe damage on the practice of the arts, which then fell into total confusion. Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Lives of the Artists.
Some early Christian fanatics destroy Greek and Roman Art (Is this image fake or true?) the image if from a site ( In the 8th to 9th cntury AD actually also Christian Art was destroyed by iconoclasts in Byzantium, who opposed displaying Saints or God in images. |
