Well, ugliness, just like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. Personally, I despise the baroque style with a passion of thousand burning suns: too pompous, too much, too... of everyone. Especially when people have a perfectly beautiful Roman or Gothic cathedral and violate it with Baroque redecoration. *shudders*
I don't doubt that they believed they were building something great, but the Catholic Church did always have this unfortunate tendency to show off its power and riches. Taste often played little to no role. It was part of intimidating the heretics.
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Date: 2007-08-07 06:32 am (UTC)I don't doubt that they believed they were building something great, but the Catholic Church did always have this unfortunate tendency to show off its power and riches. Taste often played little to no role. It was part of intimidating the heretics.