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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1810011" data-attributes="member: 6533">I might agree with much of this, the initial lines on serfdom and slavery seem a bit overblown, but the fact is I do not know why free standing sculpture went totally out of style for much of the period throughout most of the world.Certainly, at least part of it may be that free standing sculpture is pretty much an aberration anyways.  In or own society it only shows up given some pretty unusual circumstances in the market for art and some very specific assumptions on gardening and public spaces.  But, it may also be that free standing sculpture was thought of as a specifically pagan practice.  The Byzantines still do some of it, sort of, and then the Italians pick it up, but even there it's done with specifically pagan and classical references in mind.So, no sense that your religion is fixing the problems of the last culture, and you got one less reason to not do free standing culture.Given Renaissance attitudes you might also have one less reason to do it, but either way you're freer.</blockquote>