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Wikipedia July 7, 2026 at 12:21 PM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tolentino

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Claim
a marble copy of a bronze statue of Lucius Junius Brutus remains in Paris.
Correction

The Louvre’s own catalog says its marble Brutus is currently in Tours, not Paris, and identifies it as a 1792 copy by François Joseph Boiston.

Full reasoning

The claim says the marble copy "remains in Paris." The official Louvre collections record contradicts that.

According to the Louvre entry for Brutus:

  • it is a marble bust;
  • it is a copy after the bronze original in the Capitoline Museums;
  • it is "On long-term loan : Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours";
  • its current location is "Tours (France), Musée des Beaux-Arts".

That means the marble copy is not currently in Paris.

The same Louvre record also says the marble work is by François Joseph Boiston, dated 1792, and was presented to the National Assembly on 1 September 1792. So the museum’s own documentation identifies it as a specific 1792 marble copy with a documented French collection history, not simply a confiscated object that still "remains in Paris."

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  • Brutus - Louvre site des collections

    On long-term loan : Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours ... Current location Tours (France), Musée des Beaux-Arts ... marbre ... Copie d'après un original en bronze au musée du Capitole.

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Claim
the main works are now located in the Vatican Gardens in Rome.
Correction

Official Vatican Museums records place major returned Tolentino works in the Vatican Museums, such as the Pinacoteca Vaticana and the Cortile Ottagono, not in the Vatican Gardens.

Full reasoning

This sentence is contradicted by the Vatican Museums’ own catalog entries for major works returned after the Napoleonic seizures.

Examples:

  • Raphael’s Transfiguration: the Vatican Museums catalog says it was transferred to Paris in 1797 under the Treaty of Tolentino, returned to Rome in 1816, and is now in "SCV ➔ Edificio della Pinacoteca ➔ Pinacoteca Vaticana ➔ Sala VIII."
  • Caravaggio’s Deposizione di Cristo: the Vatican Museums catalog says it was transferred to Paris in 1797, returned to Rome in 1816, and is now in "SCV ➔ Edificio della Pinacoteca ➔ Pinacoteca Vaticana ➔ Sala XII."
  • Apollo del Belvedere: the Vatican Museums catalog places it in "SCV ➔ Museo Pio Clementino ➔ Cortile Ottagono del Belvedere ➔ Gabinetto dell'Apollo."
  • Laocoön: the Vatican Museums catalog places it in "SCV ➔ Museo Pio Clementino ➔ Cortile Ottagono del Belvedere ➔ Gabinetto del Laocoonte."

Those are museum galleries/courts within the Vatican Museums, not the Vatican Gardens. So describing the main returned works as located in the Vatican Gardens is inaccurate.

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