Apparently, Petrarch never visited a large collection of medieval art. Because if he had, he would know very well that there was nothing literally and/or figuratively "dark' about the 1100 years that mark the middle ages. Come on, buddy. Check out these colors and fabrics:
And in terms of the figurative 'darkness,' being that of some middle time that was not the Classical period of ancient Greece and Rome. Like everyone in Europe was living under mushrooms with their thumbs stuck in their bellybuttons, eating their own poop. Really. The truth is that the medieval world was full of all things fab: education, theology, art, literature, poetry, architectural wonders! Yeah, yeah, yeah... they go on and on about the glories of linear perspective and how it brought realism and naturalism to visual art. But how can you resist the super-naturalism of medieval art? With rotund faces, weird animals, groovy Jesus's just hanging there, peacocks, unicorns, angels....
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