The Humanization of the Religion

In the Renaissance, Jesus becomes a physical hero. He has this amazing body, and you see this body on the cross. It wouldn't have meant anything to the Renaissance audiences to have just a symbolic man on a cross. Now it has to be a real man, and not just any man. And so, this ideal changes as ideas changed about human beings.

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