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When religious doubt affects sacred art practice

I have been studying Byzantine icon painting for six months but I am agnostic and I worry that my doubt shows up in the gold leaf somehow

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The fear that inner spiritual ambivalence might contaminate sacred artistic work reveals the perceived connection between belief and creative authenticity.

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