"Iconoclasm (from Greek: εἰκών, eikṓn, ´figure, icon´ + κλάω, kláō, ´to break´)[i] is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other ...
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images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons. People who engage in or support iconoclasm are called iconoclasts, a term that has come to be figuratively applied to any individual who challenges "cherished beliefs or venerated institutions on the grounds that they are erroneous or pernicious."
Conversely, one who reveres or venerates religious images is called (by iconoclasts) an iconolater; in a Byzantine context, such a person is called an iconodule or iconophile. Iconoclasm does not generally encompass the destruction of the images of a specific ruler after his or her death or overthrow, a practice better known as damnatio memoriae." - (en.wikipedia.org 16.05.2021)
