# The Circumcision

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## Artwork

- Artist: [GAROFALO](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on wood, 37 x 50 cm

## Commentary

In its use of strong colours and miniaturist detail, the work is typical of the Ferrarese High Renaissance. The panel is thought to have formed the central section of the predella for Garofalo&#39;s altarpiece of the Massacre of the Innocents painted in August 1519 for the church of San Francesco in Ferrara and now in the city&#39;s Pinacoteca Nazionale. As early as 1632 the Louvre picture is known to have been removed from the Ferrara altarpiece and substituted by a copy.

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- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf/adoration-of-the-magi-r17c8a6646bc6cb>)
- [Apotheosis of Hercules](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf/apotheosis-of-hercules-rbda05ae3c8d9b9>)
- [Ascension of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf/ascension-of-christ-rbd6b04b5bfb37e>)
- [Christ and the Adulteress](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf/christ-and-the-adulteress-rd82ed065beea40>)
- [Dispute in the Temple](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf/dispute-in-the-temple-rbb8ec9fbf54532>)
- [Entombment](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf/entombment-re74802b2ef2163>)
- [Holy Family with Sts Anne and Joachim, and the Infant St John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf/holy-family-with-sts-anne-and-joachim-and-the-infant-st-john-the-baptist-r2b3aa489b63e16>)
- [The Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf/the-annunciation-r8aad59fef71ad3>)
- [The Circumcision](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf/the-circumcision-r858f1bee9e7f87>)
- [Virgin and Child before a Curtain](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf/virgin-and-child-before-a-curtain-r46f71bfb79d027>)
- [Virgin and Child with Saints \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf/virgin-and-child-with-saints-detail-r79907b7a8ed3c4>)
- [Virgin and Child with Saints](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/garofalo-rdcc5f4e65e3baf/virgin-and-child-with-saints-rf6b1a21d5fb33d>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)