what is Franciscan humanitarianism?

Question

what does the term Franciscan humanitarianism and what did it have to do with art during the Renaissance in europe

Answer 1

If you read through the book review on this page linked below, I think you will get the idea.

Basically, the "humanitarian" aspect is the missionary work during the period 1520-1570, when the Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian monastic orders carried the major role as cultural mediators from the New World to Europe--so we see themes and ideas brought from native new world cultures into European art by way of the missionaries.

The book being discussed on this page makes the point that the native artists contributed more to European art than has been previously thought..." the Indian artists of the time
were highly competent, that they made extensive use of both
native and European techniques in painting and architecture. For
example, some skilled native artists enthusiastically adopted the
"chiaroscuro" technique of using light and shading to convey
three-dimensional effects. Edgerton states that it has been too
easily assumed that works which showed many European features must have been produced by Europeans, rather than by Indians, thus both greatly underrating the skills of the native artists,who learned from a school established early in Mexico City by Fray Pedro de Gante, and also overestimating the skills of the first group of European artists who immigrated to the new Spanish Americas."