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Youth of Moses

History, Religious and Mythological Paintings

The Youth of Moses, also called The Trials of Moses, is a fresco painted in 1481 and 1482 by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli and his workshop for the Sistine Chapel in Rome. It compresses several episodes from the early life of Moses drawn from the Book of Exodus into a single composition, arranged on the chapel wall to parallel a facing scene of the temptations of Christ. The fresco measures about 348.5 by 558 centimetres. 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
1481 1
Medium
Fresco 1
Location
Sistine Chapel, Rome 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Fresco 1
Connections

Created By

Sandro Botticelli, Artists
Source Youth of Moses (Wikipedia)

In Form

Fresco, Art Forms
Source Youth of Moses (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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Sources
1. Youth of Moses (Wikipedia)
  • Opening paragraph, medium
    a fresco
  • Infobox, Location
    Sistine Chapel, Rome
  • Genre reference
    The Youth of Moses, also called The Trials of Moses, is a fresco painted in 1481 and 1482 by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli and his workshop for the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
  • infobox year field: 1481-1482
  • In Form: Fresco, lead paragraph
    The Youth of Moses or The Trials of Moses is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli and his workshop, executed in 1481-1482 in the Sistine Chapel, Rome (modern-day Italy).
  • Created By: Sandro Botticelli, lead paragraph
    The Youth of Moses or The Trials of Moses is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli and his workshop, executed in 1481-1482 in the Sistine Chapel, Rome (modern-day Italy).
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