Template:Did you know nominations/Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life
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Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life
Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life
- ... that An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life (pictured) is in the Dutch vanitas genre but it follows a memento mori theme? Source: The painting is in the Dutch vanitas genre but it follows a Memento mori theme. The included objects appear to have been selected by Steenwyck for their ability to evoke the senses. Some items such as the paper and shell appear to be delicate, alluding to mortality. The skull is the most obvious reminder of human mortality
- ALT1: ... that An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life (pictured) includes a skull with missing teeth as a reminder of human mortality? Source: The image includes a skull with missing teeth and the skull acts as the ultimate reminder of mortality
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Last of Us: Escape the Dark
Moved to mainspace by Bruxton (talk). Nominated by Bruxton (talk) at 22:02, 5 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
Hi Bruxton (talk), review follows; article created 5 March and exceeds minimum length; article is well sourced and cited inline; I didn't find any overly close paraphrasing from the sources I accessed and Earwig is clear; hooks are mentioned in article and check out to the sources, I don't find ALT0 particularly interesting to me; a QPQ gas been carried out; image is excellent and obviously PD. There's just a handful of minor points on the text that I picked up - Dumelow (talk) 09:38, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
- You use both "Steenwyck" and "Steenwijck" for the author's name.
I have standardized it to "Steenwijck" as our Wiki spells it. Oddly enough a few references spell it "Steenwyck".
- Feels a bit repetitious to describe the vanitas genre ("mortality ... transient nature" etc.) in both the "History" and "Description" sections, can it be one or the other?
moved all to the description
- Strange capitalisation of "life" in "still Life"
I changed the spelling to "Still life" both in the title and article.
- There is something of a jumble of quotation marks in the following passage so it is unclear what exactly is the quotation: "In the 2016 book Art and music in the early modern period the editor stated, 'The image presents a "jumble of exquisite possessions ... abandoned hollow things ... receiving temporary luster from a higher source. The ray of sunlight cuts directly to the right side of the skull in the painting."
I believe that I fixed the section
- The opinion of Elena Tuparevska is given but she is not introduced so it is unclear what her expertise is.
I listed the original source and qualifications for Elena Tuparevska
- You use both "Steenwyck" and "Steenwijck" for the author's name.
- @Dumelow: Thank you for the review. I spun this one up rather quickly so thank you for the review. I think I have corrected all. Bruxton (talk) 15:37, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
