I guess you could say they were more motivated by prophets.
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Michelangelo definitely got paid and paid handsomely at that
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A better commentary would be something like, "not motivated by planned obsolescence."
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A cathedral brought immense wealth to a province, especially one with a relic that people would travel to. These things took decades or more to build, required enormous sums of money and materials, and employed master architects, masons, carpenters, quarrymen, and artisans, not to mention towns of merchants and businesses that would build up around the projects. For both the church and the crown there absolutely were financial motivations for all this, as well as religious ones
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That's Ely Cathedral - if you climb the highest hill in my village on a clear day you can see it floating there in the haze from around 15 miles or so away - the most beautiful wooden octagon ever built rising above the flat Fens.
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This is false. Back then the Church was like a literal empire but unofficially. So powerful that it started lying to people to donate money. Which caused Martin Luthers chain reaction which created the Reformation separating the church into Catholicism and Protestantism.
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My home parish is building a new church building that rivals the cathedral. We’re experiencing rapid growth, but if we wanted to, we could have just patched up the old building, put more seats in, or anything else. As a diocese we believe in our college outreach and thus we made our college ministry church something magnificent. It was expensive, it won’t take in money, but it will be a spiritual home for thousands of college students over the coming years. God is good.
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Probably not a door you want to open up. Its going to get obliterated and point out some blatant hypocrisy
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So true. I was just in Italy and I toured many churches and they were amazing. And they were all built with faith and love for Jesus our lord and saviour
20 hours ago | 2
Being able to draw up accurate architecture plans was a friggin superpower back when few knew how to read. You can bet your chuch donations money helped motivate those guys
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Amen! And we still build beautiful churches today. In the United States, the diocese of Knoxville recently had a very beautiful cathedral built. Same in North Carolina. These buildings come at great expense to all of us, Catholics, but they are worth every penny as my children and grandchildren will get to find Our blessed Lord in the Tabernacle of these magnificent buildings. If this is truly the Lord‘s house, then we should make it beautiful. Anybody telling us otherwise is like Judas trying to convince us that we should sell our perfume at a profit and give the money to the poor (although Judas certainly would not have given the money to the poor). I suspect most of the people in this comment section saying what Judas said would also disregard the poor.
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Where do you think they got all the money to build that?
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