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The Circumcision (Parmigianino)

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The Circumcision is a small oil-on-panel painting made around 1523 by the Italian Mannerist painter Parmigianino, measuring 42 by 31.4 centimeters and held by the Detroit Institute of Arts. It depicts the circumcision of the infant Jesus as recounted in the Gospel of Luke, showing the Christ child surrounded by numerous figures including a young Madonna, a priest performing the rite with a knife, two doves referencing Mary's ritual purification, and decorative details such as small rabbits. 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
1523 1
Medium
Oil on panel 1
Location
Detroit Institute of Arts 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Panel 1
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Created By

Parmigianino, Artists
Source The Circumcision (Parmigianino) (Wikipedia)

In Form

Painting, Art Forms
Source The Circumcision (Parmigianino) (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 Circumcision (Parmigianino) (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, year
    1523
  • Infobox, medium
    Oil on panel
  • Infobox, museum
    Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Genre reference
    The Circumcision is a small oil-on-panel painting made around 1523 by the Italian Mannerist painter Parmigianino, measuring 42 by 31.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    The Circumcision, a painting by the Italian Mannerist artist Parmigianino of the common subject of the circumcision of Jesus, was executed around 1523 and is now in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, United States.
  • Created By: Parmigianino, lead paragraph
    The Circumcision, a painting by the Italian Mannerist artist Parmigianino of the common subject of the circumcision of Jesus, was executed around 1523 and is now in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, United States.
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