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Initially I removed the link to the auction house possessing the bronze monkeys, believing it to be spam, then reinstated it in connection with the article. I am dubious over whether it should remain, though, since I have not yet found an outside reference, and wonder whether the item and the link were put up for publicity.
JNW05:59, 10 December 2006 (UTC)reply
I have removed the paragraph on the monkeys, because I could find no other documentation on the 'controversy' other than what was on the auction house's website. The claims therein are interesting, and might have merit, but they need to be confirmed by other sources to be newsworthy. If substantiating information is available, I hope someone will provide it, and reinstate the paragraph (in an abridged version--right now it contains 'too much information'), preferably with a link that does not look like spam.
JNW22:00, 10 December 2006 (UTC)reply
I am the son of Colin Wilson, the case has appeared on ITV's Find a Fortune and I believe has been mentioned in the Antiques Trade Gazette a number of times. Unfortunately my father passed away last year and it will take me months to sift through the notes and articles and find one that is relevant, however I will try.
Brown Bread27:00, 01 August 2007 (UTC)reply
There's no illustration of
Giambologna's Mercury (click here) in any Wikipedia article. There's a fine bronze reduction in the Bargello, and versions in Naples, Dresden and Vienna. It must be one of the most universally recognizable seicento sculptures: Flowers-by-Wire? Can we pull images off Flickr? Searching Giambologna there pulls down great details of the Rape, a Mercury that needs cropping, the giant garden Appenine, several Venuses (less good), etc. Leaving Michelangelo aside of course, Giambologna's one of the top three Italian sculptors of the C16: we need a really good article... --
Wetman23:00, 8 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Il Ratto della Sabina is singular: only one woman is shown, and the "subject" was decided upon after the sculpture's completion, anyway so it's rather arbitrary. The Products of American public education are encouraged to look Deeply Within to decide on what things are called, rather than to inquire about. --
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10:00, 18 April 2008 (UTC)reply