The Pieta's Wikipedia article is a community-edited encyclopedia entry, covering Michelangelo's marble sculpture, carved 1498 to 1499, its commission by Cardinal Jean de Bilheres, its status as Michelangelo's only signed work, and the 1972 hammer attack that damaged it. Its strength is that these are the kind of stable, documentable commission and conservation history facts a general reference handles well. Its limit is that a claim about the sculpture's specific theological interpretation of the Pieta subject needs a source examining that directly, not this general overview.
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A continuously revised, community-edited encyclopedia article rather than an authored or peer reviewed work, matching this corpus's settled precedent for Wikipedia citations, useful for verifiable factual detail rather than as independent scholarly authority. NotesEncyclopedic facts for Michelangelo's 1498 to 1499 marble sculpture: its commission by Cardinal Jean de Bilheres, its dimensions, its status as Michelangelo's only signed work, and the 1972 hammer attack that damaged it.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet%C3%A0_(Michelangelo)
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (109 claims)
This source backs 109 claims across the atlas. As facts: 105 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, 99 claims: 95 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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