Reminder that under the pagan Greeks and Romans, bronze sculpture flourished, producing masterpieces such as the Equestrian Aurelius.
Immediately after the Christians took control, they deliberately destroyed all art, considering it to be sinful. For the next 1000 years art and bronze sculpture in particular resembled nothing more than low relief blobs.
It was not until Cellini in the renaissance that sculpture finally returned to the level of artistic skill of the pagan Greeks and Romans. And while he may have been a Christian, what did he chose to sculpt? Not Jesus... but Perseus. A pagan figure.

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Under the pagan Greeks and Romans, bronze sculpture flourished, producing masterpieces such as the Equestrian Aurelius.
Immediately after the Christians took control, they deliberately destroyed all art, considering it to be sinful. For the next 1000 years art and bronze sculpture in particular resembled nothing more than low relief blobs.
It was not until Cellini in the renaissance that sculpture finally returned to the level of artistic skill of the pagan Greeks and Romans. And while he may have been a Christian, what did he chose to sculpt? Not Jesus... but Perseus. A pagan figure.