Protestant Reformation Impact Throughout Christian history, the Catholic Church has always been distinguished for its religious and political domain on the people. However, in order to secure their domain, the church provides a means to buy people’s salvation from those who want to go to heaven, called the indulgences. Due to the Church’s corruption that this event generated, it was establish the Protestant Reformation, which is opposed to all kinds of acts against God’s words through scripture. Another reason in how the reform affected the Catholic Church, it can be noticed through the art of the Catholic’s faith and also through the new ideas in the arts that begin to take more power in the Protestant Reformation. One of the masterpieces
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This moment occurs in the center of the painting. Behind the central group, to the left Saint Peter finds the money, and to the right, he pays the tax.
Which depicts the importance for the church to indirectly collect the indulgence of the people. In this religious painting it can be seen the disciples around Jesus, who is in the center of the painting (13). One of the facts that can be observe is that all individuals have a "gold-leaf halo" in their heads, which could represent the holiness of all, except from the tax collector who is not religious (13). On the other hand, in The Tribute Money “appears to be lead the viewer 's eyes to Christ identifying him as the most important figure in the work” (13). As time passes, the Protestant Reformation achieved a great popularity among many people who were opposed to the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. In turn, the Reformation transformed art in several ways. For example, the ideas of this new Protestant faith is influenced in the art, such as in the painting of Durer, The Four Apostles. This painting “may have been intended to show the citizens an example of what a new, Protestant art might look like” (129). Therefore, according to The Humanities, states …show more content…
The Tribute Money could depict the holiness of the disciples when carrying a halo in the painting (13). However, on the other two paintings, the money and religion are not factors of great importance, since they reflected their own ideas, such as The Four Prophets painting do not "worship false prophets" or simply reflects the rural life of the workers as in the painting of Harvesters
This moment occurs in the center of the painting. Behind the central group, to the left Saint Peter finds the money, and to the right, he pays the tax.
Which depicts the importance for the church to indirectly collect the indulgence of the people. In this religious painting it can be seen the disciples around Jesus, who is in the center of the painting (13). One of the facts that can be observe is that all individuals have a "gold-leaf halo" in their heads, which could represent the holiness of all, except from the tax collector who is not religious (13). On the other hand, in The Tribute Money “appears to be lead the viewer 's eyes to Christ identifying him as the most important figure in the work” (13). As time passes, the Protestant Reformation achieved a great popularity among many people who were opposed to the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. In turn, the Reformation transformed art in several ways. For example, the ideas of this new Protestant faith is influenced in the art, such as in the painting of Durer, The Four Apostles. This painting “may have been intended to show the citizens an example of what a new, Protestant art might look like” (129). Therefore, according to The Humanities, states …show more content…
The Tribute Money could depict the holiness of the disciples when carrying a halo in the painting (13). However, on the other two paintings, the money and religion are not factors of great importance, since they reflected their own ideas, such as The Four Prophets painting do not "worship false prophets" or simply reflects the rural life of the workers as in the painting of Harvesters