Cult Image

Christian images that are venerated are called , Veronica etc.

The introduction of venerable images in Christianity was highly controversial for centuries, especially in of the 8th and 9th centuries. In the West, resistance to idolatry delayed the introduction of sculpted images for centuries until the rise of Romanesque art and the use of the Crucifix . The intensified Pathos that informs the poem '' Stabat Mater '' takes corporeal form in the realism and sympathy-inducing sense of pain in the typical Western European corpus (the representation of Jesus' crucified body) from the mid-13th century onwards. "The theme of Christ's suffering on the cross was so important in Gothic art that the mid-thirteenth-century statute of the corporations of Paris provided for a guild dedicated to the carving of such images, including ones in ivory" {Link without Title} .

The 16th-century Reformation engendered spates of cult-image smashing, notably in England and Scotland, the Low Countries and France. The ''corpus'' was removed from the crucifix in many Protestant churches. Often the damage was concentrated on three-dimensional cult images, but more extreme Iconoclast s ("image-breakers") even smashed the representations of holy figures in Stained Glass windows. Further destruction of cult images, anathema to Puritans , occurred during the English Civil War .

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