Art

Art, like music, is a projection of social nature at a given time.

Its quality is defined by its reason and its financing.

In the case of music weighs more its reason, its purpose, its intention, since composing music is relatively cheap.

To understand this concept you have to understand the process of creation, I always give the example of Mozart and Bach, Mozart composed for the royal court, Bach composed for God, whether you are a believer or not, the motivation is totally different, so I think that Bach's compositions are the greatest exponent of music and superior in technique and feeling to those of Mozart, because Bach composed for God, according to his conception, God was eternal, infinite and omnipresent. His musical tribute was much higher than Mozart's, Bach had to please God, not mortals.

In art, especially in art related to architecture, the two predominant factors are the reason for the art and the funding. If you live in a society with a hard money pattern, money that cannot be counterfeited and money that is hard to come by, where thrift makes the difference, only art projects with a strong reason will be financed, it may be an offering to god, it may be beauty itself, it may be the representation of virtuosity.

Triumph of the Name of Jesus - Giovanni Battista Gaulli's illusionistic fresco in the Church of the Gesù in Rome, completed in 1679.