Art and religion

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>all surviving European art that was made before the 17th century is intrinsically spiritual and psychedelic
>the Renaissance was an unmitigated disaster that made people spend their entire lives painting beige tits, jerking off with pointless geometric formalism, and somehow making commissioned portraits even more boring
>art historians have realized this and now claim everything made in Western Europe after 1400 is actually part of the Renaissance
>Durer was t-t-totally Renaissance g-guys
>your average backwater Gothic statue is more visually interesting than David
>actual ancient sculptures are more interesting than David
>a random Medieval manuscript painting surpasses the scope of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling
>a random Medieval fresco surpasses the scope of the entire Renaissance visual output

Why do people rub themselves raw over this abject failure of a movement?