The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages (1880)
Sandhurst, Phillip T · N.Y., Worthington · leaf 32
gods, but also theimages of the great men which decorated the public edifices. Under the Emperor Theodosius the Great, in the fourth century, the fatal sect ofIconoclasts (breakers of images) arose. This was the signal for a fresh destructionof statues and ancient pictures. However, if the column…
Painting -- History
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