Excommunication

Excommunication

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{{short description|Censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community}}
{{short description|Censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community}}
{{for-multi|non-religious equivalents|Expulsion (disambiguation)|the 2016 album|Excommunication (album)}}
{{for-multi|non-religious equivalents|Expulsion (disambiguation)|the 2016 album|Excommunication (album){{!}}''Excommunication'' (album)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
[[File:Giorgio Vasari, Scomunica di Federico II da parte di Gregorio IX, 1572-73, 03 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Fanciful 16th-century fresco in the [[Sala Regia (Vatican)|Sala Regia]], by [[Giorgio Vasari]], depicting [[Pope Gregory IX]] excommunicating [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]]. Since few details were provided to the artist, Vasari chose to paint an excommunication scene generically. In the traditional excommunication procedure, the pope and his priests would hurl burning candles on the ground and stamp them out. The painter however here chose to show the pope personally stepping on the emperor.{{cite book |last1=Jong |first1=Jan L. de |title=The power and the glorification : papal pretensions and the art of propaganda in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries |date=2012 |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |location=University Park |isbn=978-0271062372 |pages=140−141}}]]
[[File:Giorgio Vasari, Scomunica di Federico II da parte di Gregorio IX, 1572-73, 03 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Fanciful 16th-century fresco in the [[Sala Regia (Vatican)|Sala Regia]], by [[Giorgio Vasari]], depicting [[Pope Gregory IX]] excommunicating [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]]. Since few details were provided to the artist, Vasari chose to paint an excommunication scene generically. In the traditional excommunication procedure, the pope and his priests would hurl burning candles on the ground and stamp them out. The painter however here chose to show the pope personally stepping on the emperor.{{cite book |last1=Jong |first1=Jan L. de |title=The power and the glorification : papal pretensions and the art of propaganda in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries |date=2012 |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |location=University Park |isbn=978-0271062372 |pages=140−141}}]]