The sourced Wikipedia account of Botticelli's Venus and Mars, its provenance from the Barker collection to the National Gallery's 1874 purchase, its probable wedding commission, and the scholarly reading of the wasps as a Vespucci family reference.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_and_Mars_(Botticelli)
Source Typeencyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Tier three: a collaboratively edited reference article, used here only for provenance and commission detail already corroborated by the Web Gallery of Art's own catalogue entry, not for any contested interpretive claim. Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)
This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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