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Rebirth of Beauty and Faith
American Thinker ^ | 13 Apr, 2025 | Lars Møller

Posted on 04/13/2025 5:41:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber

In the Middle Ages, like rats in a burned-down barn, wayfarers sought refuge in the oversized ruins of the Roman Empire. In such places as the Forum and the Palatine Hill, shepherds roamed with their flocks. Although preoccupied with simple survival in an anarchic world, they might occasionally have glanced at the derelict, overgrown marble temples and wondered what gods once walked the earth and created such magnificent beauty. In terms of pure sensory experience, of course, they were never worse off than scholars with historical or philosophical knowledge. The classical ideals of architectural beauty, based on organic motifs, symmetry, and balanced proportions, have — like the anatomical (and natural) beauty of the human body itself — always been for everybody to recognize and appreciate.

Image: City of Washington from Beyond the Navy Yard (George Cooke, 1833)

In the Middle Ages, like rats in a burned-down barn, wayfarers sought refuge in the oversized ruins of the Roman Empire. In such places as the Forum and the Palatine Hill, shepherds roamed with their flocks. Although preoccupied with simple survival in an anarchic world, they might occasionally have glanced at the derelict, overgrown marble temples and wondered what gods once walked the earth and created such magnificent beauty. In terms of pure sensory experience, of course, they were never worse off than scholars with historical or philosophical knowledge. The classical ideals of architectural beauty, based on organic motifs, symmetry, and balanced proportions, have — like the anatomical (and natural) beauty of the human body itself — always been for everybody to recognize and appreciate.

Eventually, Westerners broke out of the darkness and rediscovered the Greco-Roman world. As it is usually phrased, the aesthetic ideals of antiquity were “reborn” in fourteenth-century Italy. The change was particularly noticeable in

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: architecture

1 posted on 04/13/2025 5:41:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It seems like the left and the muslims want to take us back to the middle ages.


2 posted on 04/13/2025 5:41:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“we become homeless and therefore without a home to love and defend”

“How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home. A complete unknown.”

A very good article. Thanks for posting.


3 posted on 04/13/2025 5:55:13 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Obviously.


4 posted on 04/13/2025 6:11:39 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

bfl


5 posted on 04/13/2025 7:41:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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“It seems like the left and the muslims want to take us back to the middle ages.”

Leftists and Muslims want to take us back to the most profoundly Christian time in world history?


6 posted on 04/13/2025 11:08:52 AM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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