Church for most medieval people on average, based on Professor Hutton’s research from Bristol University, suggests that only when there was a spectacle a few times a year would people go to take part in Sunday service.
Despite lack of ritual in attending church on Sunday, the Church would enforce an inescapable regulation upon the public – church-goes or not. The church controlled, influenced and regulated what people did during their day as much as they did in their own bed, according to an explanation by Dr Foot of Sheffield University. Birth to death, cradle to grave, it remained that from inception the Church ruled and proved to be the passport to heaven or hell based on whether they were your friend or foe.
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How Divinity in Renaissance Art Can Appeal to a Modern Audience (Dissertation)
Renaissance art easily conjures mental imagery of both religious and erotic figures. Either heavily robed and demure, or athletic and provocatively nude. However, deeper symbolism can be missed by the most avid museum goer or gallery fiend.
As viewers, we are being primed in believing we can be divine while living vicariously through the divine beings. Identifying the Renaissance as a time of the greatest art acknowledges biblical art as the most influential. Whether blasphemous or erotic doesn’t diminish the fact that it is eternally provocative.
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