There are Golden Ages in the history of humanity, periods in which some men are particularly intellectually enlightened and this often coincides with periods of particular economic prosperity that allows the affirmation of visionary geniuses.
One of these was the Renaissance, in which even Popes appreciated the ideal canons of beauty of the ancients, despite being linked to other religions, as they referred to the human perception of the ‘Divine in Nature’. Obviously before the revelation of Jesus according to the Christian tradition.
In doing so they justified, these refined minds and lovers of beauty, the meaning of the term ‘Pontiff’ intended as a ‘bridge builder’ between the divine and the human as well as between eras and religions.
Many today build walls thinking they are modern without understanding that they are in the declining phase of each cyclical epochal change.
Maurizio Rome Guide 