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Parable of the Sower (Bruegel)

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Parable of the Sower is an oil on wood panel painting completed in 1557 by the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, now in the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego. One of Bruegel's earliest signed works and among his first large landscape compositions, it illustrates the biblical parable of the sower, showing the sower scattering seed in the foreground while, across the river, Jesus preaches the same parable to a crowd near a Flemish village and church. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Panel 1
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Genre
Painting 1
Year Created
1557 1
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Painting, Art Forms
Source Parable of the Sower (Bruegel) (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. Parable of the Sower (Bruegel) (Wikipedia)
  • Genre reference
    Parable of the Sower is an oil on wood panel painting completed in 1557 by the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, now in the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego.
  • infobox year field: 1557
  • infobox medium field: oil on wood panel
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Parable of the Sower is a 1557 landscape painting by Dutch and Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It is now in the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego.
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