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Mars Resting

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Mars, also known as Resting Mars, is a 1640 painting by Diego Velazquez, now in the Prado Museum. It is thought to have been finished around 1639 to 1640, one of a group of paintings the artist made for the Torre de la Parada for King Philip IV of Spain. 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
1640 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Museo del Prado, Madrid 1
Commissioned By
King Philip IV of Spain 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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Source Mars Resting (Wikipedia)

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Painting, Art Forms
Source Mars Resting (Wikipedia)

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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. Mars Resting (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction, sentence 1
    is a 1640 painting
  • Infobox, medium
    Oil on canvas
  • Infobox, museum
    Museo del Prado
  • Introduction, sentence 3
    the Torre de la Parada for King Philip IV of Spain
  • Genre reference
    Mars, also known as Resting Mars, is a 1640 painting by Diego Velazquez, now in the Prado Museum.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Mars or Resting Mars (Descanso de Marte, literally The Rest of Mars) is a 1640 painting by Diego Velázquez. It is now in the Prado Museum. It is thought to have been finished around 1639-1640, as were all paintings made by the art
  • Created By: Diego Velázquez, lead paragraph
    Mars or Resting Mars (Descanso de Marte, literally The Rest of Mars) is a 1640 painting by Diego Velázquez. It is now in the Prado Museum. It is thought to have been finished around 1639-1640, as were all paintings made by the art
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