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Visitation (Ghirlandaio)

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A tempera-on-panel painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, dated 1491 and commissioned by Lorenzo Tornabuoni for the church that became Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi in Florence; it now hangs in the Louvre. The painting depicts the Visitation, the Gospel of Luke's account of the meeting between the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth (Luke 1:39 to 56), showing Elizabeth kneeling before Mary while two other women, identified as Mary the mother of James and Mary Salome, stand at the sides. 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
1491 1
Medium
Tempera on panel 1
Location
Louvre Museum, Paris 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Tempera 1
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Source Visitation (Ghirlandaio) (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. Visitation (Ghirlandaio) (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section, sentence 1
    1491
  • Lead section, sentence 1 [medium]
    tempera on panel
  • Lead section, sentence 1 [location]
    Louvre Museum in Paris, France
  • Genre reference
    A tempera-on-panel painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, dated 1491 and commissioned by Lorenzo Tornabuoni for the church that became Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi in Florence; it now hangs in the Louvre.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    The Visitation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, dating from 1491. It now is in the Louvre Museum, Paris, France. The work was commissioned by Lorenzo Tornabuoni for the church later known as S
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