the puritan protestant influence on american catholicism is always most apparent when you look at art from the renaissance papacy in florence and rome. the dismay and dread you see a lot from the online catholic right if ever, for instance, you post a picture of people at the beach, is a modern fixation that has its roots in 16th and 17th century rejection of the catholic church. even after the council of trent, the church took a stance against nudity in explicitly religious art, but the position was not that any time a pair of breasts was displayed in media, you should spray holy water everywhere and scream uncontrollably. leave that to the reformationists.
