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Navicella

mosaic by Giotto di Bondone
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Summary

Navicella is a mosaic[1]. Navicella draws 470 Wikipedia views per month (mosaic category, ranking #7 of 34).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Giotto[3]
  • Country: Vatican City[4]
  • Commissioned by: Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi[5]
  • Movement: Proto-Renaissance[6]
  • Genre: religious painting[7]
  • Depicts: Jesus Christ[8], Apostoli[9], sea[10], fisher[11], sailboat[12]
  • Collection: St. Peter's Basilica[13]
  • Location: St. Peter's Basilica[14]
  • Commons category: Navicella mosaic[15]
  • Inception: 1330[16]
  • Depicts Iconclass notation: 11G192[17]
  • Different from: Navicella[18], Navicella Krammer (1997)[19]
  • Width: 990 cm[20]
  • Name: mosaïque de la nacelle[21], Navicella en mosaïque[22], mosaïque de la Navicella[23], Navicella[24]

Why It Matters

Navicella has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Navicella is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

Giotto Jesus Christ Vatican City

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Vies des peintres, sculpteurs et architectes. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Vies des peintres, sculpteurs et architectes. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Les Vies des meilleurs peintres, sculpteurs et architectes. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . lives of the most excellent painters,sculptors,and architects. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15h ago · Zserghei · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location → St. Peter's Basilica
    Instance of → —
    Country → Vatican City
    Inception → +1330-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||ru, da, uk */ Drop the article's disambiguation from the Russian label as ru:Навичелла (мозаика) names the work, add the Italian name in Danish and its transc"
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