在中世纪,基督教理论的中心信条也是基督教艺术最大的正当理由。正是道成肉身使宗教艺术得以合法化。我们可以认为,这一事实倾向于逃避《旧约》对于神与人的形象的禁制,这种禁制在基督教时代的头两个世纪行之有效,并且延迟了基督教艺术的兴起。我们得感谢8至9世纪拜占廷反偶像破坏理论家,他们巧妙阐述了道成肉身信条对艺术 In the Middle Ages, the central dogma of Christianity was also the single most legitimate reason for Christianity. It is the incarnation that legitimized religious art. We might think that this fact tended to evade the prohibition of the image of God and man in the “Old Testament”, which was effective in the first two centuries of the Christian era and delayed the rise of Christian art. We thank the Byzantine anti-idol destructive theorists from the 8th to the 9th century for their clever elaboration of the doctrine of truth