Iconoclastic Controversy
"Bilderstreit"

• "Bilderstreit"


• Tank and Palette


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1980. Gouache and pen and ink on photograph
19 3/4 x 31 1/2 in. (50.2 X 80 cm)
Inscribed lower left in gouache: Bilderstreit
Inscribed center left in gouache: Konstantin V [Constantine V]/Theophilos/Th. Melissenos [Theodotos I Kassiteras]
Inscribed upper right in gouache: Leo III
Inscribed around the palette in pen and ink (clockwise): Th. Studites [Theodore of Stoudios] Staurakios Eirene [Irene] Michael III. Theodora Artavsdos [Artabsdos]
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1995
1995.14.29

 

 

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