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iconodule
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I`con´o`dule
n.1.(Eccl. Hist.) One who serves images; - opposed to an iconoclast.

iconodule, iconodulist
a person who worships images.
See also: Images


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He examines a body of writing on art and vision produced during 11th-century Byzantium, and points out the influence of that writing in iconophile doctrines and compendia of heresies produced in the Middle Byzantine era.
Ad Imaginem may be the most thorough survey of seventeenth-century Jesuit print culture in existence, and it opens up a wondrous and often bizarre world of illustrated gospels, meditative images, emblem books, spiritual exercises, and virtual pilgrimages by creative masters such as Johannes David, Antoine Sucquet, Philips Fruytiers, and the prolific and absurdly erudite Louis Richeome, one of the most obsessive iconophiles of the Baroque era.
 
 
 
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