Editing Sculpture (section)

==Anti-sculpture movements==
[[Aniconism]] originated with [[Judaism]], which did not accept figurative sculpture until the 19th century,<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0018_0_17899.html| title = Jewish virtual library, History of Jewish sculpture.| access-date = August 20, 2014| archive-date = August 5, 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140805044926/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0018_0_17899.html| url-status = live}}</ref> before expanding to [[History of Christianity|Christianity]], which initially accepted large sculptures. In Christianity and Buddhism, sculpture became very significant. Christian [[Eastern Orthodoxy]] has never accepted monumental sculpture, and [[Islam]] has consistently rejected nearly all figurative sculpture, except for very small figures in reliefs and some animal figures that fulfill a useful function, like the famous lions supporting a fountain in the [[Alhambra]]. Many forms of [[Protestantism]] also do not approve of religious sculpture. There has been much [[iconoclasm]] of sculpture for religious motives, from the Early Christians and the [[Beeldenstorm]] of the [[Protestant Reformation]] to the 2001 destruction of the [[Buddhas of Bamyan]] by the [[Taliban]].