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The Death of Adonis

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2023
Entity authorityQ117353117 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Death of Adonis may refer to:

The Death of Adonis (Mazzuoli), a 1700-1710 marble sculpture by Giuseppe Mazzuoli, in the Hermitage Museum

The Death of Adonis (Rodin), an 1888 white marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin, in the Musée Rodin

The Death of Adonis (Rubens), a c.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Death of Adonis” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1700, 1710, 1888—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Death, Adonis and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 31, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q117353117. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1700, 1710 and 1888.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Death of Adonis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.