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Rustic Renaissance: Vernacular architecture in religious painting from late 15th to early 16th centuries
Rustic Renaissance: Vernacular architecture in religious painting from late 15th to early 16th centuries
Journal Article

Rustic Renaissance: Vernacular architecture in religious painting from late 15th to early 16th centuries

2026
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Overview
Although Renaissance art often favoured classical architecture as the setting for sacred events and characters, several works from the period, from different European regions, placed religious narratives within rural landscapes that included vernacular architecture. Far from serving as neutral scenery, these rustic settings conveyed symbolic meaning shaped by theological discourse. Christian humanism and Platonic thought converged, prompting many Renaissance paintings to articulate the harmony between the humble life of the countryside and the divine order inscribed in the natural world. Drawing from contemporary humanist thought, pastoral literature, and the iconographic analysis of five case studies, this article argues that vernacular imagery provided a culturally resonant language for divine presence to be more easily experienced. The artistic choice of vernacular architecture, rather than revealing a rejection of Renaissance classicism, suggests a parallel mode of revival, grounded in classical heritage, just as much as Greco-Roman architecture would. This article explores how such architectural choices impacted the audience’s performative construction of sacred meaning, allowing spiritual experience to be mediated through recognisable and symbolically resonant landscapes. Aunque el arte renacentista solía preferir la arquitectura clásica como escenario para eventos y personajes sagrados, varias obras de la época, procedentes de diferentes regiones europeas, situaban las narrativas religiosas en paisajes rurales que incluían arquitectura vernácula. Lejos de servir como escenario neutral, estos entornos rústicos transmitían un significado simbólico moldeado por el discurso teológico. El humanismo cristiano y el pensamiento platónico convergieron, lo que llevó a muchas pinturas renacentistas a expresar la armonía entre la vida humilde del campo y el orden divino inscrito en el mundo natural. Basándose en el pensamiento humanista contemporáneo, la literatura pastoral y el análisis iconográfico de cinco casos prácticos, este artículo sostiene que las imágenes vernáculas proporcionaban un lenguaje culturalmente resonante que facilitaba la experiencia de la presencia divina. La elección artística de la arquitectura vernácula, en lugar de revelar un rechazo al clasicismo renacentista, sugiere un modo paralelo de Renacimiento, basado en la herencia clásica, al igual que lo haría la arquitectura grecorromana. Este artículo explora cómo tales elecciones arquitectónicas influyeron en la construcción performativa del significado sagrado por parte del público, permitiendo que la experiencia espiritual se mediara a través de paisajes reconocibles y simbólicamente resonantes.
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid