When discussing art, architecture, and really any beautiful thing made by man, the frame of the conversation is always tainted by a thoroughly modern lens. How people today conceptualize ‘art’, especially ‘fine art’ is altogether different than when people thought of art in the past.  The most clear proof of this difference is through semantics.  It is obvious, not only by their writing, but also by the words used that the Ancient Greeks and Romans did not think of art in the

The traditional art and liturgy of the Church is often criticized for chasing after mere aesthetics, that the essence of the faith is not...

Why fine art, 'art for art's sake', is unchristian, materialistically utilitarian, Romantic, and Kantian and therefore should not be pursued.