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The Conversion of Saul (Michelangelo)

History, Religious and Mythological Paintings

The Conversion of Saul is a fresco by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in the Pauline Chapel of the Vatican Palace in Vatican City. It depicts the moment Saul is converted to Christianity while traveling on the road to Damascus. 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
1542 1
Medium
Fresco 1
Location
Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, Vatican City 1
Commissioned By
Pope Paul III 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Fresco 1
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Created By

Michelangelo, Artists
Source The Conversion of Saul (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)

In Form

Fresco, Art Forms
Source The Conversion of Saul (Michelangelo) (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 Conversion of Saul (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, Type
    Fresco
  • Infobox, Location
    Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, Vatican City
  • Description
    Pope Paul III commissioned the work
  • Genre reference
    The Conversion of Saul is a fresco by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in the Pauline Chapel of the Vatican Palace in Vatican City.
  • infobox year field: circa 1542-1545
  • In Form: Fresco, lead paragraph
    The Conversion of Saul is a fresco painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti (c. 1542-1545). It is housed in the Pauline Chapel (Capella Paolina), Vatican Palace, in Vatican City. This piece depicts the moment that Saul is converted to C
  • Created By: Michelangelo, lead paragraph
    The Conversion of Saul is a fresco painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti (c. 1542-1545). It is housed in the Pauline Chapel (Capella Paolina), Vatican Palace, in Vatican City. This piece depicts the moment that Saul is converted to C
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