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Cardinal and Theological Virtues (Raphael)

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The Cardinal and Theological Virtues is a lunette fresco by Raphael, located on the south wall of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. Three of the cardinal virtues are personified as statuesque women seated in a bucolic landscape, while the theological virtues are represented by putti. 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
1511 1
Medium
Fresco 1
Location
Stanza della Segnatura, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City 1
Commissioned By
Pope Julius II 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Fresco 1
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Created By

Raphael, Artists
Source Cardinal and Theological Virtues (Raphael) (Wikipedia)

In Form

Fresco, Art Forms
Source Cardinal and Theological Virtues (Raphael) (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. Cardinal and Theological Virtues (Raphael) (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, Year
    1511
  • Infobox, Type
    fresco
  • Introduction, sentence 1
    located on the south wall of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican
  • Description
    commission to decorate the private apartments of Pope Julius II
  • Genre reference
    The Cardinal and Theological Virtues is a lunette fresco by Raphael, located on the south wall of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican.
  • In Form: Fresco, lead paragraph
    The Cardinal and Theological Virtues is a lunette fresco by Raphael found on the south wall of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. Three of the cardinal virtues are personified as statuesque women se
  • Created By: Raphael, lead paragraph
    The Cardinal and Theological Virtues is a lunette fresco by Raphael found on the south wall of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. Three of the cardinal virtues are personified as statuesque women se
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