It apperars to me that the Vasari and the Renaissance artists both care about god and religious values. In the slides, almost all of the pictures are of religous moments and especially the crusifiction of Jesus Christ. Even in the picture of the king and queen, the king is larger than all of the warriors underneath him which shows that he is on higher platform that normal humans. In the slide of Abraham and Isaac (Competition Panel) there are angels that are flying above them which give the sense that they are in heaven in the presence of god. Also in slide number seven it looks to be the angels handing Abraham the ten commandments and then Abraham giving the commandment to the people at the bottom of the hill.
Vasari also takes god and religion as a high priority. Within the second paragraph, he talks about how "Now the matarial in which God worked to fashion the first man was a lump of clay." I'm not quite sure, but I do recall remembering a quote very similar that was in the book of Genisis. Also in the beginninng of the Life of Leonardo Da Vinci, Vasari says "A single person is marvellously endowed by heaven with beauty, grace and talent in such abundance that he leaves other men far behind, all his actions seem inspired, and indeed everything he does clearly comes from god rather than from human art." Vasari holds Da Vinci on a higher platform than all other artists and says that he was gifted by god with the gift of art and thats why his art is so much better than any other human. Vasari also says that Da Vinci's art was "So wonderfully inspired by the grace of god," which credits most of his art to god. LETS GO PHILLIES!
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