(September 6, 2017 at 11:23 am)Cyberman Wrote:(September 6, 2017 at 9:58 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Catholics by far have the better visual art and architecture. Protestants by far have the better music, ex. Bach was a Lutheran.
Better than who?
Than everyone at anytime ever. Greatest painting of all time:
![[Image: 890px-Las_Meninas%2C_by_Diego_Vel%C3%A1z..._Earth.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Las_Meninas%2C_by_Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C_from_Prado_in_Google_Earth.jpg/890px-Las_Meninas%2C_by_Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C_from_Prado_in_Google_Earth.jpg)
YMMV but I have no problem asserting the general superiority of Western European painting and music. There really is no comparison. However, that was ages ago and the West is deep in a period of artistic decline.