Dear Santiago, considering that his Excellency proposed in this video that the Sistine Chapel should be whitewashed, maybe you should show a little less enthusiasm.
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Speaking as a painter, I am always disappointed that traditional Catholics have no more appreciation for our artistic traditions than the modernists do. If you care to have beautiful churches decorated with beautiful art, you shouldn't denigrate the greatest works of Catholic art or the men who made them. How could one even begin to list all of the monuments of the Church which we would not have if not for the Italian Renaissance? This patrimony should be cherished and not casually demeaned.
@@StephenHeiner Hi Stephen. The spirit of the Renaissance, criticized by Msgr. Delassus, might be defended by drawing an analogy. Like Solomon's replacement of the simple Tabernacle which Moses had built with the beautifully ornate Temple, the reconstruction of St. Peter's Basilica by Renaissance architects and with the patronage of Renaissance popes was a pious work. Though less humble than the primitive art of the first millennium, the magnificence of Renaissance art was no less fitting an expression of the spirit of Christianity. Just as Solomon desired wisdom, the Renaissance was animated by a desire for learning, and the use made of the nude in painting and sculpture could be compared to Solomon's allegorizing of romantic love in the Song of Songs. Naturally, the prosperity of Solomon's kingdom also created an occasion for moral turpitude and led to the division of the kingdom after his death, and a similar complaint can be made about the Renaissance. That does not diminish the goodness of Renaissance art. The preference for the primitive is not Catholic but, on the contrary, an unnatural sentiment typical of modernists. Let the eastern schismatics have their Byzantine stick figures. We as Catholics should not prefer what is ugly and misshapen to what is beautiful and true to nature.
@@benjaminpatterson7765 THANK YOU, Ben, for being a voice of reason. When people say "Roman Catholic Church", they immediately think about the Vatican and renaissance/baroque art and architecture. Popes have lived surrounded by that stuff. At this point it's too late to start criticizing the renaissance and baroque art movement as being too worldly, because the Church facilitated it with too much effort to divorce it from catholicism anymore. Critique of renaissance era thinking is fine, but that's another topic. Art is of course subjective and I have no problem with someone preferring medieval iconography over renaissance/baroque art, but enough with this nonsense about it being unfitting for the Roman Catholic religion. Most of the churches in Rome today are post-renaissance churches. You can't tell there is something wrong with the art in those churches, just because you're being overly scrupulous about human anatomy. I speak as a fellow artist. God bless
This is the first time I’ve seen Catholics criticize sacred art from the Romantic period (rightly). Usually, only the E.Orthodox do so wrt iconography. I would like this topic to be developed further.
You may be talking about "Americanism and the Anti-Christian Conspiracy" which is actually a different book written previously by Msgr. Delassus (1898 vs. 1910 for "The Anti-Christian Conspiracy")
@@mhtseminary www.traditioninaction.org/Library/texts/C_005_Amer.pdf ca-rc.com/americanism-and-the-anti-christian-conspiracy If these are different books, then please excuse me. I can't find information distinguishing a 1899 and 1910 versions.
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Dear Santiago, considering that his Excellency proposed in this video that the Sistine Chapel should be whitewashed, maybe you should show a little less enthusiasm.
Thank you your Excellency.
I always figured that "corruption of the best is worst" meant that the best, corrupted, become the worst.
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The Plains Indians also tagged their enemy in battle and it was a great achievement that brought honors
Finally, I only have it in French :D
Speaking as a painter, I am always disappointed that traditional Catholics have no more appreciation for our artistic traditions than the modernists do. If you care to have beautiful churches decorated with beautiful art, you shouldn't denigrate the greatest works of Catholic art or the men who made them. How could one even begin to list all of the monuments of the Church which we would not have if not for the Italian Renaissance? This patrimony should be cherished and not casually demeaned.
These great artists are not “infallible” and their art is not above criticism. If you have an answer to the critiques leveled here please offer them.
@@StephenHeiner Hi Stephen. The spirit of the Renaissance, criticized by Msgr. Delassus, might be defended by drawing an analogy. Like Solomon's replacement of the simple Tabernacle which Moses had built with the beautifully ornate Temple, the reconstruction of St. Peter's Basilica by Renaissance architects and with the patronage of Renaissance popes was a pious work. Though less humble than the primitive art of the first millennium, the magnificence of Renaissance art was no less fitting an expression of the spirit of Christianity. Just as Solomon desired wisdom, the Renaissance was animated by a desire for learning, and the use made of the nude in painting and sculpture could be compared to Solomon's allegorizing of romantic love in the Song of Songs. Naturally, the prosperity of Solomon's kingdom also created an occasion for moral turpitude and led to the division of the kingdom after his death, and a similar complaint can be made about the Renaissance. That does not diminish the goodness of Renaissance art. The preference for the primitive is not Catholic but, on the contrary, an unnatural sentiment typical of modernists. Let the eastern schismatics have their Byzantine stick figures. We as Catholics should not prefer what is ugly and misshapen to what is beautiful and true to nature.
@@benjaminpatterson7765 THANK YOU, Ben, for being a voice of reason. When people say "Roman Catholic Church", they immediately think about the Vatican and renaissance/baroque art and architecture. Popes have lived surrounded by that stuff. At this point it's too late to start criticizing the renaissance and baroque art movement as being too worldly, because the Church facilitated it with too much effort to divorce it from catholicism anymore. Critique of renaissance era thinking is fine, but that's another topic.
Art is of course subjective and I have no problem with someone preferring medieval iconography over renaissance/baroque art, but enough with this nonsense about it being unfitting for the Roman Catholic religion. Most of the churches in Rome today are post-renaissance churches. You can't tell there is something wrong with the art in those churches, just because you're being overly scrupulous about human anatomy.
I speak as a fellow artist. God bless
I think that modern society is not even pagan anymore. The pagans were religious in some sense the very least. Cf. Marcus Tullius Cicero.
post-pagan? eek.
This is the first time I’ve seen Catholics criticize sacred art from the Romantic period (rightly). Usually, only the E.Orthodox do so wrt iconography.
I would like this topic to be developed further.
Wasza Ekscelencjo, co oznaczają symbole w logo MHS ? Niektore symbole używane przez okultystow są podobne.
Czy miałeś na myśli MHT?
That's not unusual. Occult has similarities. Symbols can mean different things interpretations.
@@mhtseminary Yes.
F.Y.I., +Msgr. Delassus's book had been previously translated into English.
You may be talking about "Americanism and the Anti-Christian Conspiracy" which is actually a different book written previously by Msgr. Delassus (1898 vs. 1910 for "The Anti-Christian Conspiracy")
If you know where such a copy exists please provide a link
@@mhtseminary www.traditioninaction.org/Library/texts/C_005_Amer.pdf
ca-rc.com/americanism-and-the-anti-christian-conspiracy
If these are different books, then please excuse me. I can't find information distinguishing a 1899 and 1910 versions.