The deal with Mozart, DaVinci, Michelangelo,and many well-known Renaissance and Classical painters, composers etc. is that they knew which side their bread was buttered on and they didn't want to go against Mother Church because their livelihoods would be terminated by their religious patrons.

If you examine their lives, however, you find that they were probably Freethinkers who played politics. Had to to survive. So they quoted religious stuff a lot and painted religious images to pay the bills.

Even today, you can't be free with certain art forms that run contrary to religious dogma without repercussions from many in the government as well as private sector.

People get really upset over a figure of Jesus in piss at an art museum. So what? I am equally disgusted at the Ten Commandments being displayed in the government buildings
in Dixie Florida and consider that a worse thing because it denegrates every other person who doesn't regard this icon with reverence in a country that's supposed to have religious and intellectual freedom.

Frank Hamilton