The sourced Wikipedia account of Giambologna's Flying Mercury, distinguishing its several cast versions, the 1578 to 1580 primary bronze made for Cardinal Ferdinando I de' Medici's Villa Medici fountain in Rome, and its 1780 move to the Uffizi followed by its 1865 move to the Bargello.
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Reliability Tier3
Tier three: a collaboratively edited reference article, used here for the dated facts because it distinguishes the several cast versions and their separate histories in more internally consistent detail than the second source. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Mercury_(Giambologna)
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Mercury directly: "account of Giambologna's Flying Mercury, distinguishing its several cast versions, the 1578 to 1580 primary bronze made for Cardinal Ferdinando I de' Medici's Villa Medici fountain in Rome, and its..."
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This source backs 18 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sacred Art & Iconography, 12 claims: 9 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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