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Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law

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Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law is a 1659 oil on canvas painting of the prophet Moses by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. It depicts Moses about to break the original two stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The painting is held in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. 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
1659 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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Rembrandt, Artists
Source Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law (Wikipedia)

In Form

Painting, Art Forms
Source Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law (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. Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section, opening sentence
    a 1659 oil-on-canvas painting of the prophet Moses by the Dutch artist Rembrandt
  • Lead section, medium description
    a 1659 oil-on-canvas painting of the prophet Moses by the Dutch artist Rembrandt
  • Lead section, location statement
    It is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
  • Genre reference
    Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law is a 1659 oil on canvas painting of the prophet Moses by the Dutch artist Rembrandt.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law is a 1659 oil-on-canvas painting of the prophet Moses by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. It depicts Moses about to break the original two stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments. It is n
  • Created By: Rembrandt, lead paragraph
    Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law is a 1659 oil-on-canvas painting of the prophet Moses by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. It depicts Moses about to break the original two stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments. It is n
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