***Don’t forget, Protestants hate beauty.***
Savanarola and his followers also had quite a problem with some church art.
Well, to be fair to both sides, much of its was “lusty,” so to speak. It did not help that painters would used their mistresses as models for the saints.
Did Old Sav destroy religious art? I know he destroyed artwork (Leonardo’s sensuous Leda and the Swan may have been burned) and just about everything else, lol!
“Savanarola and his followers also had quite a problem with some church art.”
Their problem regarded what they considered obscene or extravagant patronage or pagan. They had nothing against beauty in itself. All anyone has to do is look at the sheer dourness of Northern Protestantism - especially Puritanism - to see what I am saying is true.
Botticelli, apparently inspired by a sermon from Savonarola, painted this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Mystic_Nativity%2C_Sandro_Botticelli.jpg Clearly Botticelli did not believe Savonarola was against beauty. And Botticelli burned some of his work at the request of Savonarola.
