Template:Did you know nominations/The Source (Ingres)
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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:33, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
The Source (Ingres)[edit]
- ... that Ingres's 1856 painting The Source (pictured) is described as "the most beautiful figure in French painting", according to art historian Kenneth Clark?
Created/expanded by SupernovaExplosion (talk). Self nom at 04:28, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
- I reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Itō Chūta --SupernovaExplosion Talk 04:36, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
- ALT ... that work for The Source (pictured), a painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, was started in 1820 and completed in 1856? --SupernovaExplosion Talk 04:39, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
- ALT2... that Ingres's 1856 painting The Source (pictured), depicting a nude woman holding a pitcher, is described as "the most beautiful figure in French painting"? --SupernovaExplosion Talk 04:55, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
- Have reviewed and revised; how about this alternative hook: Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 14:59, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
- Looks grand. --SupernovaExplosion Talk 01:24, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
- ALT3...that Irish novelist George Moore described Ingres' The Source (pictured) as "that exquisite dream of innocence"?
Good to go, with ALT3 hook agreed with original nominator; I am, however, now involved in the article so someone else may want to review (can't see this issue discussed in the DYK guidance notes), thanks, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 12:50, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
