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So if someone was a good pagan artist, the church was cool with that?
by lazide 1y ago
So if someone was a good pagan artist, the church was cool with that?
- 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.
- 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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- iamacyborg 1y agoYes, hence there being a lot of obviously pagan art at the Vatican.