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So when radical Protestantism attacked the cult of images of the Roman church, smashing them by the thousands and accusing the pope of promoting idolatry--or when reform-minded Catholics attacked the apparently pagan sophistications of Michelangelo and his followers--Angelico's art was at hand to attest to the possibilities of good, sincere Christian craftsmanship, which taught the faith with all the suave blandishments of ornament. Whereas modernity is often heralded by the arrival in a small village of a new building marked with the sophistications of the big city, or a foreign education (as, for example, is the case across Ireland now), in Portugal, it often seems that it is the whitewashed character of simple village architecture that is increasingly making itself felt in the big cities, often at the hands of the country's leading architects. style sophistications with the warmth of its Latin culture. |
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