"Religious threads" ...yeah I like them
especially since the churches greatest
writers like Aquinas were Aristotelian
like Da Vinci..
Which means they modelled off a pagan
scientist that was progenitor of empiricism
not simple minded myths and legends.
ok, Michelangelo d'Buonarotti , not as "scientific" as DaVinci I'll agree.
Do you like what he produced artistically/architecturally?
also, my understanding is that most things Roman were appropriated from the Greeks and Etruscans ?