[lazide]

Customers were not allowed to ask for pagan art, on penalty of death for large portions of the time we are talking about.

[ffsm8]

Owning art that was too lifelike was also a death sentence.

Anything that detracted from the grandour of the church was evidence of satanism. So, if you got a painting that looks better then what's on display in church, you were gonna get executed eventually.