Yes, but I think Son of Richard is on the right track with what he said:
The Germans have robbed Europe of the last great cultural harvest it ever reaped — that of the Renaissance. Does one understand at last, does one want to understand, what the Renaissance was? The revaluation of Christian values, the attempt, undertaken with every means, with every instinct, with all genius, to bring the countervalues, the noble values to victory … So far there has been only this one great war: there has not been a more fundamental interrogation than that undertaken by the Renaissance — the question it raised is the same question that I raise. There has never been a more thoroughgoing attack, nothing more direct, and nothing more forcefully unleashed along the entire frontline, and upon the enemy’s centre! To launch an attack on the decisive point, on the very heartland of Christianity, placing the noble values on the throne, I mean, bringing them right into the instincts, into the lowest needs and desires of those who sat there… I see in my mind’s eye an uncannily fascinating possibility — it seems to shimmer with a trembling of refined beauty; there seems to be an art at work in it so divine, so devilishly divine that one might search the millennia in vain for another instance of it; I envisage a spectacle so ingenious, so wonderfully paradoxical at the same time, that it would have moved all the gods of Olympus to an immortal roar of laughter — Cesare Borgia as pope … Am I understood? … Well then, that would have been a victory of the kind I desire today: with that, Christianity would have been abolished! — What weny wrong? A German monk, Luther, came to Rome. This monk, with all the vengeful instincts of a shipwrecked priest in his system, was outraged in Rome against the Renaissance … Instead of understanding, with the most profound gratitude, the tremendous event that had happened, the overcoming of Christianity in its very seat, his hatred understood only how to derive its own nourishment from this spectacle. Luther saw the corruption of the papacy when precisely the opposite was more than obvious: the ancient corruption, the original sin, Christianity, no longer sat on the papal throne! Life sat there instead — the triumph of life, the great Yes to all heightened, beautiful, reckless things!.. And Luther restored the church […]
-Nietzsche, The Anti-Christian, 61
I couldn’t help but notice that Jesus is not in fact hanging on the crucifix in his avatar. This speaks to me of true Renaissance Christian style- the image of God hanging on the cross curses life.