Miserere Excommunication

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I read that there was once an excommunication put upon performing the “Miserere mei, Deus” (G. Allegri) outside of the Sistine Chapel or even just transcribing it.

Does anyone know when this was lifted?
 
Good ol’ Wikipedia reveals that it was published in 1771, at which time the ban was lifted.
 
JMJ_coder said:
I read that there was once an excommunication put upon performing the “Miserere mei, Deus” (G. Allegri) outside of the Sistine Chapel or even just transcribing it.

Does anyone know when this was lifted?
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I’m pretty sure it has been lifted, as the previous poster mentioned. There’s the well-known story about Mozart as a child transcribing the entire piece from memory after visiting the Sistine Chapel and hearing it be performed. He wasn’t excommunicated for doing it.
 
budgie2 said:
I know this is unrelated but I’m sure God the Father on the Sistine Chapel is Jupiter. Is it a pagan image of God the Father? If so, why should I pay to see it?

bridgemanartondemand.com/art/76650/Sistine_Chapel_Ceiling_The_Creation_of_Adam_detail_of_God_the

britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/308395/Jupiter
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Why would it be Jupiter any more than Adam is Apollo or any other such nonsense? Just because the Father is represented as an old man and the style is consciously reminiscent of Greek and Roman painting?

Many other depictions did the same, none of them were accused of being representations of Jupiter!

Michelangelo seems to have been a devoted Catholic - I remember reading about him choosing a particular shade of blue for the background of the Last Judgement wall because it was the colour of Our Lady’s mantle.

I don’t think there was any intent on his part for God the Father to be Jupiter.
 
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