A Wikipedia article on the Diana of Versailles, a Roman marble copy of a lost Greek bronze of the huntress goddess Diana attributed to Leochares, held by the Musee du Louvre under accession Ma 589. The article gives the statue's dimensions, its dating to about 125 to 150 CE, and its history from a 1556 papal gift to Henri II of France through Fontainebleau, the Louvre and the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles before returning to the Louvre in 1798.
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Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_of_Versailles
Source Typeencyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here for the statue's museum, accession number and history, independently corroborated by the Wikimedia Commons category record for the same statue. Cross-Tradition Connections
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Diana, Deities This source names Diana directly: "A Wikipedia article on the Diana of Versailles, a Roman marble copy of a lost Greek bronze of the huntress goddess Diana attributed to Leochares, held by the Musee du Louvre under accession Ma 589."
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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