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This is incredibly ignorant. The Church didn't kill anyone for being good at art, and in fact did more for the development of fine art than any other institutio
by milesrout 1y ago
This is incredibly ignorant. The Church didn't kill anyone for being good at art, and in fact did more for the development of fine art than any other institution in human history.
- lazide 1y agoSo if someone was a good pagan artist, the church was cool with that?
- johnsmith1840 1y agoLooking at religious art and thinking religion destroyed/hampered art is a hot take honestly. If anything the opposite argument would be that without relgion art has devolved has more merit than this.
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- analog31 1y agoAs I understand it, being an artist was a trade. If there were no customers asking for pagan art, there would have been no pagan art.
- lazide 1y agoCustomers were not allowed to ask for pagan art, on penalty of death for large portions of the time we are talking about.
- ffsm8 1y agoOwning art that was too lifelike was also a death sentence. Anything that detracted from the grandour of the church was evidence of satanism. So, if you got a painting that looks better then what's on display in church, you were gonna get executed eventually.
- iamacyborg 1y agoYes, hence there being a lot of obviously pagan art at the Vatican.
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