The Cracow picture illustrates changes in the religious approach in Italy,
following the current of religious spiritualism - a reaction to the moderate reii-
giousness of humanism. In the extreme manifestations of renouatio in the Church
of that time (Savonaroła's preaching, ideas professed by the Hieronymites), any
possibility of linking Christian thought with the antiąue tradition is denied.
The Cracow work of the Maestro del Tondo Borghese expresses the ideas of re-
nouatio influenced by the Savonarolan movement of the actualizing dimension of a
religious propaganda. This is an example of popular art intended for private devo-
tion, whose archaized form seems rather odd in the High Renaissance period.
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following the current of religious spiritualism - a reaction to the moderate reii-
giousness of humanism. In the extreme manifestations of renouatio in the Church
of that time (Savonaroła's preaching, ideas professed by the Hieronymites), any
possibility of linking Christian thought with the antiąue tradition is denied.
The Cracow work of the Maestro del Tondo Borghese expresses the ideas of re-
nouatio influenced by the Savonarolan movement of the actualizing dimension of a
religious propaganda. This is an example of popular art intended for private devo-
tion, whose archaized form seems rather odd in the High Renaissance period.
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