Posts Tagged ‘Renaissance’

Christianity put a stop to science. Huh!

Friday, July 1st, 2011

Christianity put a stop to science  according to Victor Stenger. “Greece and Rome were well on the way to modern science when Christianity interrupted its development for a thousand years. It was no accident that the scientific revolution of the eighteenth century happened only after the revolts against Church authority in the Renaissance and Reformation opened Read more

The sexuality of Christ in renaissance art

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

The recent death of the Art historian Leo Steinberg has revived interest in his controversial  book “The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion.” The book grew out of a question that had apparently occurred to no other modern scholar: Why is it that in so many Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and Child, Read more