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L'Excommunication De Robert Le Pieux
''The Excommunication of Robert the Pious'' (french: L'Excommunication de Robert le Pieux) is an 1875 painting by Jean-Paul Laurens, held by the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris. It depicts the excommunication of Robert II of France in the year 998. History The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1875 and, together with Laurens' other work on display that year, ''L'Interdit'', was generally reckoned to be the finest historical paintings entered. It was bought from the artist by the State in 1875, and exhibited at the Luxembourg Museum until 1929, when it was transferred to the Louvre. It has belonged to the collections of the Musée d'Orsay since 1982. The work was Laurens' first after his visit to Italy, which influenced his technique. His use of colour in this painting is noticeably less sober and more animated than in his previous work. It was one of a series of historical paintings by Laurens that depicted various parts of the narrative of Robert the Pious. These were ''L'Interdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to end or at least regulate the communion of a member of a congregation with other members of the religious institution who are in normal communion with each other. The purpose of the institutional act is to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular, those of being in communion with other members of the congregation, and of receiving the sacraments. It is practiced by all of the ancient churches (such as the Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox churches and the Eastern Orthodox churches) as well as by other Christian denominations, but it is also used more generally to refer to similar types of institutional religious exclusionary practices and shunning among other religious groups. The Amish have also been known to excommunicate members that were either seen or known for breaking rules, or questioning the church, a practice known as shunni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
