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Description: | Paintings such as The Seven Corporal Acts of Mercy help us to understand how some Christians have traditionally wanted to practice their faith in particular acts of charity and humanity. Such acts were considered pleasing to God, and showed others that a person's religious faith had an effect in altering the ways they considered the plight of others. Although charitable acts increased in time - particularly during the eighteenth century, as people's perceptions of those who lived in poverty altered - the view that one's state in life was inevitable and almost unchangeable was historically upheld by a rigid class system, which did act as a deterrent to acts of mercy'. Indeed, it was not until the nineteenth century that charitable acts became fashionable' to the point of being institutionalised. | Subjects: | religion | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Francken, Frans, II (Flemish painter, 1581-1642) Æ Attributed to manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8721... | Go to resource |
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