The church had meticulously outlined what they deemed was good to Cristian faith. They wanted to depict what it was Christian faith was about in the art they paid for; Michelangelo was one of those people that got hired to assemble a huge display. As an artist he had portrayed no censorship to the nudity of his work to portray that there was no shame in history. In the picture above of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel you can see that within the painting there are depictions of the old testament like when Adam and Eve when they were being tempted to sin. The Sistine Chapel ceiling is an example of how the art work that derived from the Renaissance was driven by religious ideology; however, over time the nudity didn’t align with the reformed religious views. Due to the change in ideology the church had another painter cover any sort of nudity. Having the depiction of what happened to sinners who did not obey the rules was a reminder of what the church advocated. The need for censorship demonstrates the great influence art had, over what the people took from it. The church had strict guidelines on what a Cristian life looked like, but the most confined was the role of a woman. “Consequently she groups evidence in terms of representations commissioned for specific uses, such as marriage furniture.” The quote shows that the woman of the Renaissance were thought of as objects. It showed that in that time woman were owned to be displayed for their beauty and usefulness. Women were limited to what they could be they were also mainly seen as mothers. One art piece that demonstrates the gender roles is Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci. The Virgin of the Rocks depicts the Madonna, baby Jesus, John the Baptist and an angle. The painting speaks of the role woman had by illustrating that they were care givers to children with the protection of the
The church had meticulously outlined what they deemed was good to Cristian faith. They wanted to depict what it was Christian faith was about in the art they paid for; Michelangelo was one of those people that got hired to assemble a huge display. As an artist he had portrayed no censorship to the nudity of his work to portray that there was no shame in history. In the picture above of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel you can see that within the painting there are depictions of the old testament like when Adam and Eve when they were being tempted to sin. The Sistine Chapel ceiling is an example of how the art work that derived from the Renaissance was driven by religious ideology; however, over time the nudity didn’t align with the reformed religious views. Due to the change in ideology the church had another painter cover any sort of nudity. Having the depiction of what happened to sinners who did not obey the rules was a reminder of what the church advocated. The need for censorship demonstrates the great influence art had, over what the people took from it. The church had strict guidelines on what a Cristian life looked like, but the most confined was the role of a woman. “Consequently she groups evidence in terms of representations commissioned for specific uses, such as marriage furniture.” The quote shows that the woman of the Renaissance were thought of as objects. It showed that in that time woman were owned to be displayed for their beauty and usefulness. Women were limited to what they could be they were also mainly seen as mothers. One art piece that demonstrates the gender roles is Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci. The Virgin of the Rocks depicts the Madonna, baby Jesus, John the Baptist and an angle. The painting speaks of the role woman had by illustrating that they were care givers to children with the protection of the