{"version":2,"name":"David by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1501–1504)","paintingName":"David","artist":"Michelangelo Buonarroti","date":"1501–1504","artistProfile":{"artistName":"Michelangelo Buonarroti","name":"Michelangelo Buonarroti","description":"Biographical details and a verified portrait have not yet been recorded for this attribution.","kind":"unknown","birthDate":null,"deathDate":null,"activeDates":null,"nationality":null,"birthPlace":null,"deathPlace":null,"attributionNote":null,"portrait":null,"sources":[]},"artistUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive?artist=Michelangelo%20Buonarroti","medium":"Marble sculpture","dimensions":"Unknown","location":"Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy","period":"Italian Renaissance","culture":"Italy","canonicalUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive/david-michelangelo-buonarroti-1501-1504","imageUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/72999ea58370fafa4666b50139d62a1f393aa2afe82bb86f75d53fc0bcc1fecc-preview.jpg","highestResolutionImageUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/72999ea58370fafa4666b50139d62a1f393aa2afe82bb86f75d53fc0bcc1fecc.png","imageTitle":"David by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1501–1504) | High-resolution image","imageRights":null,"publishedUtc":"2026-10-16T21:25:33.1107643+00:00","summary":"A photograph of Michelangelo's David in the Galleria dell'Accademia. The image, taken by Maksim Sokolov, shows the marble sculpture and its museum setting. This guide describes the visible scene and what can be responsibly said from the supplied evidence.","text":"The photograph shows Michelangelo's David in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence. The file title is simply David, and the description identifies the subject as Michelangelo's David in the Academia Galley.\n\nThe category for the image is David by Michelangelo Buonarroti with the Accademia Museum dome. This file records a photograph of the sculpture, not a drawing or painting.\n\nIn this front view, the marble figure is centered and fully visible. The category David by Michelangelo Buonarroti (front view) - with people tells us that people are present in the photograph.\n\nThe figure appears illuminated against a darker architectural background. The dome of the Accademia Museum is visible above and behind the sculpture in the same file.\n\nThe photograph was taken by Maksim Sokolov on 18 July 2019. The camera was a Canon EOS M100, and the file is 6,000 by 3,368 pixels.\n\nThe file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International. These details belong to the photograph itself, not to the sculpture.\n\nThe sculpture is dated 1501 to 1504 and is attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti. It is described as a marble sculpture of the biblical hero David.\n\nThat identification comes from the file title and category. No official museum record is supplied in this evidence, so the attribution and date are reported here as the file gives them, not as conclusions from an institutional catalogue.\n\nThe subject is David, a young man holding a sling, shown before his confrontation with Goliath. This is the story the file title and description point to.\n\nThe photograph captures the complete figure from the front. We do not have supplied details of gesture, expression or symbolic meaning beyond that.\n\nWhat we can responsibly say is this. The image is a photograph of Michelangelo's David in the Accademia, taken by Maksim Sokolov in 2019. The sculpture is presented as a marble work depicting the biblical hero before his fight with Goliath.\n\nBeyond that, the supplied sources are limited to file metadata. They do not verify the sculpture's provenance, its art-historical interpretation, or the museum's own records. So this guide stays with what the file actually tells us.","passages":[{"id":"passage-1","role":"hook","evidence":"documented","text":"The photograph shows Michelangelo's David in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence. The file title is simply David, and the description identifies the subject as Michelangelo's David in the Academia Galley.\n\nThe category for the image is David by Michelangelo Buonarroti with the Accademia Museum dome. This file records a photograph of the sculpture, not a drawing or painting.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-2","role":"looking","evidence":"observation","text":"In this front view, the marble figure is centered and fully visible. The category David by Michelangelo Buonarroti (front view) - with people tells us that people are present in the photograph.\n\nThe figure appears illuminated against a darker architectural background. The dome of the Accademia Museum is visible above and behind the sculpture in the same file.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-3","role":"context","evidence":"documented","text":"The photograph was taken by Maksim Sokolov on 18 July 2019. The camera was a Canon EOS M100, and the file is 6,000 by 3,368 pixels.\n\nThe file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International. These details belong to the photograph itself, not to the sculpture.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-4","role":"turn","evidence":"interpretation","text":"The sculpture is dated 1501 to 1504 and is attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti. It is described as a marble sculpture of the biblical hero David.\n\nThat identification comes from the file title and category. No official museum record is supplied in this evidence, so the attribution and date are reported here as the file gives them, not as conclusions from an institutional catalogue.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-5","role":"turn","evidence":"interpretation","text":"The subject is David, a young man holding a sling, shown before his confrontation with Goliath. This is the story the file title and description point to.\n\nThe photograph captures the complete figure from the front. We do not have supplied details of gesture, expression or symbolic meaning beyond that.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-6","role":"closing","evidence":"interpretation","text":"What we can responsibly say is this. The image is a photograph of Michelangelo's David in the Accademia, taken by Maksim Sokolov in 2019. The sculpture is presented as a marble work depicting the biblical hero before his fight with Goliath.\n\nBeyond that, the supplied sources are limited to file metadata. They do not verify the sculpture's provenance, its art-historical interpretation, or the museum's own records. So this guide stays with what the file actually tells us.","sourceIds":["source-1"]}],"sources":[{"id":"source-1","title":"Wikimedia Commons: David","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelo%27s_David_in_Academia_Galley.jpg","publisher":"Wikimedia Commons","sourceType":"secondary","authors":["Maksim Sokolov"],"publicationYear":2019,"publicationTitle":"Michelangelo's David in Academia Galley.jpg","annotation":"Photograph of Michelangelo's David in the Galleria dell'Accademia, taken by Maksim Sokolov. The file provides visual evidence of the sculpture and its setting but does not offer art-historical interpretation or scholarly cataloguing.","accessStatus":"open_access","consultationStatus":"partially_consulted","relevance":"artwork"}],"history":"The photograph shows Michelangelo's David in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence. The file title is simply David, and the description identifies the subject as Michelangelo's David in the Academia Galley.\n\nThe category for the image is David by Michelangelo Buonarroti with the Accademia Museum dome. This file records a photograph of the sculpture, not a drawing or painting.\n\nIn this front view, the marble figure is centered and fully visible. The category David by Michelangelo Buonarroti (front view) - with people tells us that people are present in the photograph.\n\nThe figure appears illuminated against a darker architectural background. The dome of the Accademia Museum is visible above and behind the sculpture in the same file.\n\nThe photograph was taken by Maksim Sokolov on 18 July 2019. The camera was a Canon EOS M100, and the file is 6,000 by 3,368 pixels.\n\nThe file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International. These details belong to the photograph itself, not to the sculpture.\n\nThe sculpture is dated 1501 to 1504 and is attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti. It is described as a marble sculpture of the biblical hero David.\n\nThat identification comes from the file title and category. No official museum record is supplied in this evidence, so the attribution and date are reported here as the file gives them, not as conclusions from an institutional catalogue.\n\nThe subject is David, a young man holding a sling, shown before his confrontation with Goliath. This is the story the file title and description point to.\n\nThe photograph captures the complete figure from the front. We do not have supplied details of gesture, expression or symbolic meaning beyond that.\n\nWhat we can responsibly say is this. The image is a photograph of Michelangelo's David in the Accademia, taken by Maksim Sokolov in 2019. The sculpture is presented as a marble work depicting the biblical hero before his fight with Goliath.\n\nBeyond that, the supplied sources are limited to file metadata. They do not verify the sculpture's provenance, its art-historical interpretation, or the museum's own records. So this guide stays with what the file actually tells us.","sections":[],"facts":[],"referenceSections":[{"id":"identity","title":"Identity and creation","entries":[{"text":"The Wikimedia Commons file title is 'David'.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The file description states 'Michelangelo's David in Academia Galley'.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The depicted sculpture is categorized as 'David by Michelangelo Buonarroti with the Accademia Museum dome'.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"A category for the file is 'David by Michelangelo Buonarroti (front view) - with people'.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"materials-technique","title":"Materials and technique","entries":[{"text":"The photograph was taken with a Canon EOS M100 camera.","kind":"materials_technique","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"provenance","title":"Provenance","entries":[{"text":"The photograph was taken by Maksim Sokolov (maxergon.com).","kind":"provenance","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The photograph was taken on 18 July 2019 at 08:09:04.","kind":"provenance","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The photograph is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.","kind":"provenance","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The photographic file is 6,000 × 3,368 pixels in size.","kind":"provenance","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"collection","title":"Collection and display","entries":[{"text":"The sculpture is listed in Wikimedia Commons categories as being in the Accademia Museum.","kind":"collection","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"values","title":"Documented values and qualified estimates","entries":[{"text":"Calculated working insurance estimate, not a sale price: Estimated value: US$500M to US$2B Recorded date: Working calculation, generated 2026-10-16. Methodology: Calculated as a broad, conservative working insurance range for manual review, using only the supplied confirmed context: Michelangelo Buonarroti, David, 1501-1504, marble sculpture, Italian Renaissance, held at the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, and described as a prominent masterpiece. Because the supplied excerpts do not include official institutional records, ownership documents, or appraised figures, the range is based on prominence, cultural importance, and assumed institutional custody. The lower bound reflects the insurance scale of a universally recognized monumental marble sculpture of the Italian Renaissance. The upper bound reflects maximum loss exposure for a unique, irreplaceable, publicly exhibited masterwork. No comparable sales, auction records, private insurance data, or official institutional appraisals were available or used. Qualification: This is a model-generated working range for manual review. It is not an official insurance value, an appraisal, an auction result, or a sale price. It should be verified by a qualified fine-art insurance specialist, curator, or appraiser before any insurance or financial use.","kind":"calculated_insurance","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]}],"archiveResearch":{"catalogueFields":[{"id":"artwork-title","label":"Title","value":"David","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"artist","label":"Artist or attribution","value":"Michelangelo Buonarroti","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"date","label":"Object date","value":"1501–1504","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"medium","label":"Medium and support","value":"Marble sculpture","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"current-location","label":"Current collection or location","value":"Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"movement-or-period","label":"Movement or period","value":"Italian Renaissance","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"country-or-culture","label":"Country or culture","value":"Italy","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"subject-summary","label":"Depicted subject","value":"The biblical hero David, shown as a nude young man holding a sling, in the tense moment before his confrontation with Goliath.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"attribution-qualification","label":"Attribution qualification","value":"The supplied source identifies the depicted sculpture as Michelangelo's David. The photograph itself is by Maksim Sokolov. The sculptor's authorship is not directly verified by an official museum record in the supplied evidence.","sourceIds":[]}],"claims":[{"id":"archive-04effb80ddca4f98f161","sectionId":"identity","text":"The primary evidence assembled for this section is the Wikimedia Commons file record for a photograph of Michelangelo's David. The file title is simply David, while the file description expands the subject as \"Michelangelo's David in Academia Galley\", an apparent misspelling of Accademia Gallery. The Commons categories attached to the file place the depicted work as \"David by Michelangelo Buonarroti with the Accademia Museum dome\" and, separately, \"David by Michelangelo Buonarroti (front view) - with people\". These four identifiers are the catalogue frame available here: a short file title, a descriptive caption naming Michelangelo and the Accademia setting, a category pairing the sculpture with the museum dome, and a category recording that the view is frontal and that people appear in the frame. They describe the photographic file and its filing, not an institutional catalogue entry for the sculpture itself.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The file record and its identifiers","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File title"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Description"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Categories"}]},{"id":"archive-b5a15546044c1af338ea","sectionId":"identity","text":"Because the supplied evidence consists of a single Commons file and its categories, the identity of the object is presented as the file presents it: a marble sculpture of the biblical hero David, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti, in the Accademia Museum, photographed from the front with people present and with the museum dome visible above and behind it. The categories support the association with Michelangelo, the Accademia setting and the frontal, populated view, and the description supports the Accademia identification despite its variant spelling. The record does not supply a museum accession number, an official catalogue title, dimensions of the sculpture, inscriptions, or provenance intervals. Treating the file title and categories as catalogue data rather than as an institutional record keeps the attribution and the setting at the level the evidence actually reaches.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"What the file does and does not establish","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Description"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Categories"}]},{"id":"archive-7b1790f0825e50b23f08","sectionId":"provenance","text":"The provenance record for this object begins, in the supplied evidence, not with the sculpture but with a single photographic document of it. The image is a Wikimedia Commons file whose short title is David and whose description identifies the subject as Michelangelo's David in the Academia Galley; the photographer is credited as Maksim Sokolov (maxergon.com), and the exposure is time-stamped 18 July 2019 at 08:09:04. The same file information records a resolution of 6,000 by 3,368 pixels. These facts establish the chain of custody of the photograph, and no more: they document who made the image, when, and in what file format it survives, but they say nothing about who has owned, housed or transferred the marble itself.","kind":"provenance","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The Photographic Record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Credit"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Date"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File information"}]},{"id":"archive-751286a3b3b2fedbd4a0","sectionId":"provenance","text":"The rights status attached to the file is likewise part of its documentary history rather than the sculpture's. The photograph is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, a licence whose attribution and share-alike conditions explain why the photographer's name and the source website accompany the image wherever it is reused. Reading the licence alongside the credit and the capture date gives a complete, self-contained provenance for the digital object: author, moment of creation, dimensions and terms of circulation. The published file was issued in 2019, the same year as the exposure, so the interval between making and release is not documented at any finer resolution than that.","kind":"provenance","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The Photographic Record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Licensing"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Credit"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Date"}]},{"id":"fact-8","sectionId":"provenance","text":"The evidence supplied for this section is entirely photographic and bibliographic, and its limits should be stated plainly rather than filled in. The sculpture's own ownership history, any sale, gift, confiscation, transfer or museum acquisition, and any inventory or accession identifier, are absent from the units available here. What can be documented is narrower: a file titled David, described as Michelangelo's David in the Academia Galley, categorized in Wikimedia Commons as David by Michelangelo Buonarroti with the Accademia Museum dome and as David by Michelangelo Buonarroti (front view) - with people, and listed in those categories as being in the Accademia Museum. Those categories are the only supplied indication of the sculpture's location, and they are a cataloguing act by the file's uploader or editors, not a museum record. Where no ownership change appears in the evidence, this account records an unrecorded interval; it does not convert silence into continuity of ownership, nor into a proven transfer.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The Limits of the Supplied Record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File information"}]},{"id":"fact-9","sectionId":"materials-technique","text":"The single primary evidence unit available to this section documents the photographic record rather than the sculpture itself: the image was captured with a Canon EOS M100 camera. That detail belongs to the modern reproduction through which the object is now commonly encountered, and it establishes the technical apparatus behind the file. The source's own metadata further records that the photograph was taken by Maksim Sokolov on 18 July 2019, that the file is 6,000 by 3,368 pixels in size, and that it carries a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. The Wikimedia Commons file is titled simply David, and its description identifies the subject as Michelangelo's David in the Academia Galley. These facts belong to the photograph, not to the sculpture: they describe how the sculpture was recorded, not how it was carved. Any account of materials and technique must therefore begin by distinguishing the technical parameters of this 2019 digital capture from the physical substance of the marble figure it depicts.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The Photographic Record and Its Technical Basis","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"}]},{"id":"fact-9-2","sectionId":"materials-technique","text":"The source also supplies categories that classify the depicted sculpture, including David by Michelangelo Buonarroti with the Accademia Museum dome and David by Michelangelo Buonarroti (front view) - with people, and places the sculpture in the Accademia Museum. These categories and the file's attribution of the sculpture to Michelangelo Buonarroti, dated 1501 to 1504 and described as a marble sculpture of the biblical hero David, are reported here as the file gives them. The supplied evidence does not include an official museum record, an institutional catalogue entry, or technical examination reports, so the attribution, the date range, and the identification of the material as marble remain metadata claims rather than conclusions drawn from documented technical analysis or a conservation record. The camera metadata, by contrast, is a directly documented technical fact: the Canon EOS M100, the exposure date of 18 July 2019, the file dimensions, and the license are verifiable properties of the image file itself.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The Photographic Record and Its Technical Basis","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"}]},{"id":"fact-9-3","sectionId":"materials-technique","text":"The evidence establishes no pigment, preparation layer, tool, support preparation, carving method, surface treatment, or material analysis connected to the sculpture. What the file title and description point to is a marble figure of David, a young man holding a sling shown before his confrontation with Goliath, but no supplied unit catalogues chisel marks, drills, abrasives, patination, or any intervention. The front-view category confirms that the photograph captures the complete figure from the front and that people are present in the image, yet the evidence provides no details of gesture, expression, or symbolic meaning beyond the identifications already noted. For a section titled Materials and technique, the honest scholarly position is that the only documented technique in the evidence is photographic: a specific camera and file format recording a sculpture whose material is reported as marble in file metadata. The sculpture's making technique must be treated as undocumented here, to be established from technical examination and institutional cataloguing that the evidence does not supply.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Materials, Method, and Evidence Boundaries","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"}]},{"id":"fact-10","sectionId":"collection","text":"The single supplied evidence unit for this section is a Wikimedia Commons file record: a photograph titled simply David, described as \"Michelangelo's David in Academia Galley,\" and categorized under \"David by Michelangelo Buonarroti with the Accademia Museum dome\" and \"David by Michelangelo Buonarroti (front view) - with people.\" Those categories place the depicted sculpture in the Accademia Museum, and the file's stated subject is Michelangelo's David. The record is photographic and documentary in kind: it establishes what a specific camera recorded at a specific moment in a specific place, together with the descriptive labels the uploader attached to it, rather than an institutional catalogue entry or a curatorial statement. This distinction matters for how the file can be used in a collection and display history, because the Accademia location and the attribution are being reported as the file reports them, not as conclusions drawn from a museum record, and the supplied evidence includes no official museum documentation that would independently confirm either point.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The photographic record and its categories","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Categories"}]},{"id":"fact-10-2","sectionId":"collection","text":"The file metadata attributes the photograph to Maksim Sokolov and dates it to 18 July 2019, recording a capture time of 08:09:04 with a Canon EOS M100 and a file size of 6,000 by 3,368 pixels, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. These are properties of the photograph, not of the sculpture: they document the conditions under which the image was made and the terms under which it circulates, and they say nothing directly about the marble, its date, or its display history in the museum. In a collection-and-display context the metadata is nonetheless useful, because it fixes the vantage point and the moment of one widely circulated view of the sculpture in its current setting, and the licensing status explains how such a view enters public circulation as reusable documentation. Because the evidence about the image is comparatively full while the evidence about the museum's own records is absent, any account of the sculpture's display based on this unit alone remains a report of what the file asserts and shows.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Categories"}]},{"id":"fact-10-3","sectionId":"collection","text":"Within the file's own terms, the sculpture is presented as a marble work depicting the biblical hero David, dated 1501 to 1504 and attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti, with the figure understood as a young man holding a sling before his confrontation with Goliath. These identifications and the narrative framing come from the file title, description, and categories, and the transcript of the published account already treats the attribution and date as reported by the file rather than as findings verified against an institutional catalogue. The photograph itself records a front view in which the figure is centered and fully visible, with people present in the frame, the marble appearing illuminated against a darker architectural background, and the dome of the Accademia Museum visible above and behind the sculpture. That combination, a complete frontal view of the figure together with surrounding visitors and the gallery's dome, is what gives this file its value as visual evidence of the sculpture in its setting, even though the file supplies no art-historical interpretation, no provenance, and no treatment history, and no supplied unit documents gesture, expression, or symbolic meaning beyond the identification of the subject.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Categories"}]},{"id":"fact-10-4","sectionId":"collection","text":"Read together, the unit supports a narrow but coherent account: a photograph taken by a named photographer in 2019 shows Michelangelo's David in the Accademia Museum, and the file's own categorization places the sculpture there while labelling the view as frontal and noting the presence of people. The larger history of the object's collection and display cannot be reconstructed from this evidence, because the only supplied unit is the Commons file and its metadata; the questions a display history would normally ask about acquisition, installation, conservation, or the museum's records are not addressed by anything in the evidence, and the file itself does not claim to address them. The responsible use of the material is therefore to treat the file as a dated, located, and licensed photographic witness to one view of the sculpture in the Accademia, and to treat the attribution, the date range of 1501 to 1504, and the identification of the subject as claims the file carries rather than conclusions the supplied evidence proves.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Categories"}]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance","sectionId":"values","text":"A working insurance estimate for Michelangelo Buonarroti's David was generated on 2026-10-16 as a broad, conservative range for manual review, stated as US$500 million to US$2 billion. The calculation was explicitly limited to the confirmed context supplied with it: an attribution to Michelangelo, a date of 1501 to 1504, marble as the material, the Italian Renaissance as the period, custody at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, and a characterization of the work as a prominent masterpiece. No comparable sales, auction records, private insurance data, or official institutional appraisals were available to or used in producing the figure. The lower bound was reasoned from the insurance scale of a universally recognized monumental marble sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, while the upper bound was framed as maximum loss exposure for a unique, irreplaceable, publicly exhibited masterwork. In other words, the range rests on prominence, cultural importance, and assumed institutional custody rather than on documented financial records of any kind.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Recorded values","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance-2","sectionId":"values","text":"The status of that figure matters as much as its numbers. The estimate is expressly identified as a model-generated working range for manual review, and the evidence states it is not an official insurance value, an appraisal, an auction result, or a sale price, and should be verified by a qualified fine-art insurance specialist, curator, or appraiser before any insurance or financial use. This qualification, together with the absence of ownership documents and official institutional records in the supplied excerpts, means the range should be read as an analytical construct built from cultural prominence, not as a recorded transaction or a museum's own valuation. It documents a method and its acknowledged limits rather than establishing a market or insured value for the sculpture.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Recorded values","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance-3","sectionId":"values","text":"The relationship between the Commons file and the valuation is one of evidentiary asymmetry. The file documents a photograph and its metadata, yet its own annotation states it offers no art-historical interpretation or scholarly cataloguing, and the valuation evidence acknowledges that the supplied excerpts contain no official institutional records, ownership documents, or appraised figures. Consequently, the attribution, date, material and location that the valuation treats as confirmed context are reported as the file gives them rather than as conclusions drawn from an institutional catalogue. The file's scope conditions what the estimate can reasonably rest on, which is the recognized prominence of the sculpture and its assumed public custody, not verified provenance or official museum records. Read together, the two units show a chain in which a limited visual-metadata source underpins an explicitly provisional financial range, and both remain candid about what they do not establish.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Recorded values","citations":[]}],"gaps":[],"timeline":[{"id":"timeline-2ac745839cff454d50f0","date":"18 July 2019","text":"A photograph of the sculpture is taken at 08:09:04, the earliest dated act of creation recorded in the supplied evidence.","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Date"}]}],"coverage":{"scope":"This record brings together the supplied object-specific evidence and literature. 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