there are a lot of sculptures with broken or damaged noses did this have like some sort of meaning or something?

Name: Woman with Scroll, An Early Byzantine Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Description: Hear Byzantine art historians Evan Freeman and Anne McClanan unlock the meanings of a marble sculpture from the past, showing an early Byzantine/Late Roman woman holding a scroll. Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 66.25

1. Noses stick out, so are a weak point in the structure, easily broken off. 2. At times in history, there have been religious movements against imagery. These are called iconoclasm. If a sculpture has been made ugly by striking off of a nose, that could indicate an iconoclastic event.

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Lesson 2: Early Byzantine (including Iconoclasm)

Woman with Scroll, An Early Byzantine Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Hear Byzantine art historians Evan Freeman and Anne McClanan unlock the meanings of a marble sculpture from the past, showing an early Byzantine/Late Roman woman holding a scroll. Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 66.25.

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ozyo the unfunny
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there are a lot of sculptures with broken or damaged noses did this have like some sort of meaning or something?
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- David Alexander
  Posted a year ago. Direct link to David Alexander's post “1. Noses stick out, so ar...”
  1. Noses stick out, so are a weak point in the structure, easily broken off.
  2. At times in history, there have been religious movements against imagery. These are called iconoclasm. If a sculpture has been made ugly by striking off of a nose, that could indicate an iconoclastic event.
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