. Mediæval and modern history . e under theinfluence of the classical revival,mingled freely pagan and Christiansubjects and motives, and thus became truer representatives thantheir predecessors of the Renaissance movement, one importantissue of which was to be the reconciliation and blending of paganand Christian culture. 267. The Paganism of the Italian Renaissance. There was areligious and moral or, to speak more accurately, an irreligiousand immoral side to the classical revival in Italy which cannot be 1 Michael Angelo, as we have seen, was an architect and sculptor as well asa painter. H
. Mediæval and modern history . e under theinfluence of the classical revival,mingled freely pagan and Christiansubjects and motives, and thus became truer representatives thantheir predecessors of the Renaissance movement, one importantissue of which was to be the reconciliation and blending of paganand Christian culture. 267. The Paganism of the Italian Renaissance. There was areligious and moral or, to speak more accurately, an irreligiousand immoral side to the classical revival in Italy which cannot be 1 Michael Angelo, as we have seen, was an architect and sculptor as well asa painter. He is the only modern sculptor who can be given a place alongside thegreatest sculptors of ancient Greece. 2 A longer list of the most eminent Italian painters would include at least thefollowing names: Cimabue (about 1240-1302) and Giotto (1276-13;,;), precursorsof the revival; Fra Angelico (1387-1455) ; Correggio (about 1494-1534) ; Tintoretto(1518-1594) ^nd Veronese (about 1530-15SS), representatives of the Fig. 52. Raphael §268] EFFECTS OF THE RENAISSANCE 241 passed wholly unnoticed even in so brief an account of the move-ment as the present sketch. In the first place, the study of thepagan poets and philosophers produced the exact result predictedby a certain party in the Church. It proved hurtful to religiousfaith. Men became pagans in their feelings and in their wayof thinking. Italian scholars and Italian society almost ceasedto be Christian in any true sense of the word. With the New Learning came also those vices and immoralitiesthat characterized the decline of classical civilization. Italy wascorrupted by the new influences that flowed in upon her, just asRome was corrupted by Grecian luxury and sensuality in the daysof the failing republic. Much of the literature of the time is evenmore grossly immoral in tone than the literature of the age ofclassical decadence. III. GENERAL EFFECTS OF THE RENAISSANCE 268. The Renaissance brought in New Concep
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