tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163581892076964937.post987044898495681990..comments2022-11-04T08:52:46.406-04:00Comments on Our Lady of Ashes: The Religious Perspective of Eternity in ArtDavid Michael Mayeuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15878894421781085604noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163581892076964937.post-21363018521937096612015-01-26T23:20:58.054-05:002015-01-26T23:20:58.054-05:00If you were an art historian you might have been a...If you were an art historian you might have been aware that that the painting you presented to illustrate your post was post Medieval. Renaissance in fact, when perspective was supposed to have gained importance.<br /><br />If what those words of Mulisch's character were true we would not have the Sistine Chapel, Rafael’s religious work, El Greco’s . We would not have Breugel. We woudl not have Titian. We would not have the Baroque with all it’s ascension narratives. We would not have Carravagio who put the invisible God in the middle of humanity, he did not need some symbolic white bearded man in a chair surrounded by stars. We would not have Roualt, Salvador Dali, Matisse, Chagall; We would not have Pollock or Rothko or Frankenthaler; we would not have Keifer or Richter. We woudl not have Goldsworthy or Kandinsky. All these artists were concerned with the transcendent even if not all of them Christian; and they are only the ones I can remember.<br /><br />The biggest damage done to the decline of the the art’s depiction of eternity was by the church itself, the Protestant church which banished artists from the church, destroyed their art and ushered in the age of enlightenment and the dominance of the rational mind.Rooshttp://www.frombrokenstones.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com