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The Rape of Proserpina, Category Record (Wikimedia Commons, Galleria Borghese CCLXVIII)

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The Wikimedia Commons category record for The Rape of Proserpina, independently confirming the Galleria Borghese, Rome, inventory CCLXVIII, white marble, dated 1621 to 1622, and describing the subject as the abduction of Proserpina, seized and taken to the underworld by the god Pluto, displayed in the museum's Room of the Emperors.

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Publisher
Wikimedia Commons
URL
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Rape_of_Proserpina_by_Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini
Source Type
reference-database
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Reliability Tier
2
A museum-attributed catalogue record on Wikimedia Commons carrying the sculpture's inventory number, independently corroborated by the Wikipedia article on the same sculpture.
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Pluto, Deities

This source names Pluto directly: "and taken to the underworld by the god Pluto, displayed in the museum's Room of the Emperors."

Proserpina, Deities

This source names Proserpina directly: "category record for The Rape of Proserpina, independently confirming the Galleria Borghese, Rome, inventory CCLXVIII, white marble, dated 1621 to 1622, and describing the subject as the abduction of..."

Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)

This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
  • Sacred Art & Iconography, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
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