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Vultures. Brass on canvas. In the middle age the catholic church was another political power in war against others (the Papacy against independent Tuscany towns or whatever bishop against his secular fellows). Repeated scandals (conspiracies, violence, simony, exhibition and gathering of extraordinary resources) lead to the uprising of new orders (Franciscans) and to the Lutheran Reform.In the Renaissance it reached another pick as a TOTALITARIAN and FOUNDAMENTALIST power, annihilating whoever
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was different (Jews, Muslims, homosexuals, free thinkers) and repressing everyone to better control people and secure economic and political power.