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The Triumph of Death (Palermo)

History, Religious and Mythological Paintings

The Triumph of Death is a fresco created around 1440 to 1445, now housed in the Regional Gallery of the Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo, southern Italy. The identity of the artist has been debated. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year Created
1440 1
Medium
Fresco 1
Location
Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo 1
Partially Attested
Commissioned By
Aragonese Kings of Naples 1
Wikipedia says only that it is thought to have been commissioned by the Aragonese Kings of Naples.
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Fresco 1
Connections

In Form

Fresco, Art Forms
Source The Triumph of Death (Palermo) (Wikipedia)

In Genre

Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. The Triumph of Death (Palermo) (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, type
    Fresco
  • Introduction, sentence 1
    Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo
  • History, paragraph 1
    thought to have been commissioned by the Aragonese Kings of Naples
  • Genre reference
    The Triumph of Death is a fresco created around 1440 to 1445, now housed in the Regional Gallery of the Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo, southern Italy.
  • infobox year field: circa 1440-45
  • In Form: Fresco, lead paragraph
    The Triumph of Death is a fresco created around 1440-5 now housed in the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo, southern Italy. The name of the artist of the work has been debated.
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