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April music

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Bridge ↗ was yesterday's TFA, - a broad topic by many. My father loved bridges, and I wrote a few articles with that in mind (Empress Elisabeth Bridge ↗, adding to Chain bridge ↗ and Müngsten Bridge ↗, the latter for childhood memory), and also thinking of bridges between people. My father travelled to Wales to visit Britannia Bridge ↗, and we circled Manhattan ↗ and walked Brooklyn Bridge ↗ and Riverside Avenue Bridge (Greenwich, Connecticut) ↗ together. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:37, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Saint George and the Dragon

Hope you don't mind my tweaking this, and as always feel free to revert, but really delighted to see it cooking:) This painting's foreground is interesting on several levels, but it's the tiny figures in distant cityscapes that always resonate and introduce a whole new set of everyday but long-dead people to mull over.

My most recent ENA painting article was ''Annunciation (Christus) ↗'' but ran out of steam, might return later as the perspective and calmness as spooky as hell. I noticed in one of your recent edits you said his tree article ↗ was "too difficult". More than FAC has become too difficult; my last few noms were horrific.
Sorry for the bummer msg, but wanted to say - v. impessed by the Rogier sandbox. Best. Ceoil (talk) 23:36, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

:It's displayed in a gallery with other van der Weyden works, van Eyck's Annunciation ↗ (very blue), Christus's Nativity ↗ and some Campin works. For some strange reason this was the one that drew my eye. Probably because it's so incredibly small and bright. Up close there's a lot to look at, as you say everyday people to mull over. And it's just a very strange painting. I'm thrilled to see the edits and especially the crop. It's very slow going for me these days and there aren't many sources, so it's simmering slowly!
:Happy to see Christus's Annunciation - that's another strange and spooky painting. Re Dry Tree, I think if I could just dig in it would be fine, but I'm not really able to edit like that anymore. Sorry to hear re FAC. I look in there occasionally and see long walls of text - frankly my patience is short these days and I don't think I could handle that. Victoria (tk) 18:02, 24 April 2026 (UTC)
::Have been using Anna's Archive ↗ and the good but not great wikipedia Library ↗ recently, as well as buying specific articles from journal archives. Think John Oliver Hand ↗, former curator of northern Renaissance paintings at the Washington National Gallery of Art, deserves an article, which may drum up next weekend. But from reading around, the most interesting aspect of the Saint George article is going to be the attribution, how it changed (Hubert van Eyck?) and the rationale (and methodology) that evolved over the last 150-odd years. Facinating stuff for nerds!!!! Ceoil (talk) 23:12, 24 April 2026 (UTC)
:::Yeah, Hand does need an article. I was surprised to see the red link. I didn't move to main space b/c of the attribution & didn't know how to title it. But after reading through Hand's literature, which includes recent technical analyses showing that the Virgin and Child Enthroned ↗ has a corresponding crack in the board (I'll add that soonish), makes me more confident. The diptych section & attribution sections sort of go hand-in-hand.{{pb}} I'll try dipping into archives.org to see what I can find there. Taylor & Francis has a few articles that might be useful but not available via TWL & I'm not interested in paying.{{pb}} I was kinda rolling my eyes when I started, thinking that I'd fallen into yet another ENA rabbit-hole. For some reason I thought it would easy peasy but it never is with these paintings. There's also the Dream of St Sergius ↗ at the Getty. Huge painting but the same little people dressed in red. So yeah, great for nerds. Victoria (tk) 23:38, 24 April 2026 (UTC)
::::Yes its totally a rabbit hole, and these can be exceedingly difficult articles to write. Would dearly like to go back to Christus's Annunciation and of course the Dry Tree, but they are very difficult to tease apart and there is so much conflicting art histograhy, making it easy to trip up.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToWSuqeQM4c&list=RDToWSuqeQM4c&start_radio=1 ↗ My main issue in the last few years has been in describing Insular objects ↗ as many of the terms have not had articles, see, for example, the had to create the difficult article on Insular crozier ↗s to back up an FAC on a specific example, and which at pains describes the different elements of croziers. Ditto with Celtic stone idols ↗. Sigh and think I'll go back to articles about 80s indie/punk, which are always calm blue oceans for me :) Ceoil (talk) 01:32, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
:::::I'd forgotten about the Campin/van der Weyden attribution issues and that needs explaining for such an early piece. I have found sources, but haven't been able to read them other than a quick skim. Sadly since I moved from sandbox to mainspace have been unwell, so the article has to sit there in that state for a while. I ''will'' get back to it. Haven't had a chance to take a look at Christus' ''Annunciation'' either but will when I'm on the upswing, so to speak. But it's good to chat about it; it crystallizes some of the the issues and it's nice to know that someone else gets how frustrating teasing them apart can be. FAC seems quite demanding these days. At least for sort of high-browish topics (art, etc)Victoria (tk) 22:54, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
::::::Am always sad to hear when you say on wiki that you are unwell, though I know it, and in way that don't have words to express. But the Dragon article is lovely and fascinating and thanks (on behalf of the wiki medieval arts community ;) The Washington NGA is now in my top 5 museums to visit bucket list, if only had the time (on earth) and cash! Visiting the Groeningemuseum ↗ in Christmas 2024 made a similar impact and lasting impression on me. Best Ceoil (talk) 00:35, 12 June 2026 (UTC)
:::::::It's such a big museum with so many wonderful galleries it's hard to do it justice. That little painting is lovely and I will get back to it! Re sharing on-wiki - I did ping about 3 months ago; it's your turn now :) Thanks for the fix on the Memling - that citation has been messed up before for some reason and it's all the little nitpicky stuff that I don't have the patience for any more. Victoria (tk) 15:51, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

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Happy First Edit Day!

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