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The Choice of Hercules (Carracci)

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The Choice of Hercules is a 1596 painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci depicting the mythological subject of Hercules choosing between virtue and vice. It is held in the Capodimonte Gallery in Naples. 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
1596 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Capodimonte Gallery, Naples 1
Commissioned By
Cardinal Odoardo Farnese 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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Painting, Art Forms
Source The Choice of Hercules (Carracci) (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. The Choice of Hercules (Carracci) (Wikipedia)
  • Lead paragraph, first paragraph, date clause
    Dating from 1596, it is housed in the
  • Infobox, medium field
    medium=Oil on canvas
  • Lead paragraph, first paragraph, place clause
    it is housed in the Capodimonte Gallery of Naples.
  • Second paragraph, first sentence
    was commissioned this work by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese for the ceiling of his
  • Genre reference
    The Choice of Hercules is a 1596 painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci depicting the mythological subject of Hercules choosing between virtue and vice.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    The Choice of Hercules is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from 1596, it is housed in the Capodimonte Gallery of Naples. The subject is the Choice of Hercules. Carracci, who was in Rome from the
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