I guess you are talking about the romantic hero worship of the individual artist, something that carries on to this day in a way. But why that has to be God working through an artist I don't know, particularly as there had already been philosophers and others questioning the existence of God anyway. And I suspect some earlier artists did think their skills had been given to them by God as they saw it. Romanticism is more about LOVE than God, and secular love at that. It's this that gets lifted up to some high ideal. And it got also mixed up with nationalism (due to the politics of the time)
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