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This is a draft of a potential Signpost article, and should not be interpreted as a finished piece. Its content is subject to review by the editorial team and ultimately by JPxG, the editor in chief. Please do not link to this draft as it is unfinished and the URL will change upon publication. If you would like to contribute and are familiar with the requirements of a Signpost article, feel free to be bold in making improvements! This draft article ... N ... has no title defined. N ... has no blurb defined. N ... is not yet ready to be copyedited. N ... has not yet been copyedited. N ... does not have an image. N ... is not yet approved for publication. Writer resources ... The Newsroom (talk) Content guidance Cheatsheet Formatting Resources Style Submissions Suggestions Previous "Featured content"s deadlines Writing: 6 January 00:00 (10 days left; 76%) Publishing: 7 January 00:00 (11 days left; 78%)There are 9 days, 11 hours, 31 minutes and 48 seconds until deadline. (refresh) Last revised 13:55, 9 March 2015 (UTC) (9 years ago) by Hafspajen (refresh)

Here they come, the couple plighted –
On life's journey gaily start them.
Man and maid for aye united,
Till divorce or death shall part them.
..... and also featuring mostly-naked men and absinthe, which are, strangely, unrelated.

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As an aside, try to italicize the titles of films, books, paintings, and so on: Ido that during copyediting, but I nearly missed a couple last issue, so I thought it wise to get a few more eyes on it. Don't worry too much about it, though.

Featured articles

Six featured articles were promoted this week.

Featured articles have been copyedited. Edit with caution.

• Shepseskare (nominated by Iry-Hor) Shepseskare, an Ancient Egyptian Fifth Dynasty pharaoh, lived in the middle of the 25th century BC. Traditionally believed to have reigned seven years, the paucity of artefacts from his reign has led some Egyptologists think that he only reigned for a few months: He has no known pyramid, though the barely-started construction of a pyramid at Abusir between other Fifth Dynasty pyramids belonging to known pharaohs, has been suggested to be all the work on Shepseskare's that his short reign allowed: It amounts to a few weeks' work levelling the ground and digging a ditch. Otherwise a couple of cylinder seals carved with his name, a few impressions of seals and some cursory mentions in historical records are all that's left of him.
• Bramshill House (nominated by Dr. Blofeld) Bramshill House is one of the largest Jacobean mansions in England. There was a manor house on the site from 1360, in a 2,500-acre (1,000 ha) wooded park. In 1605 Baron Zouche bought the estate, demolished the house and built a 15-bedroom mansion. The house is reputed to be haunted by fourteen ghosts, but we think that's transparent nonsense. Well, translucent nonsense, anyway. I mean, you can only partially see through ghosts. Must be precise.
• God of War III (nominated by JDC808) The God of War, the God of War / I'm destined for, I'm destined for / A terribly famous conqueror / With a sword upon his thigh! / When army's meet with angry shout, / Or war-like rout, or war-like rout / You'll find me there without a doubt / The God of War am I! is what goes through my head every time I see the game mentioned. Made worse because the music to Thespis is lost, but I set it to a theme from Victoria and Merrie England and... but I get way off topic. Third in the popular video game series which sees the anti-hero Kratos slaughter his way through the Greek gods. In this one, he manages to kill Helios, destroying the sun, Hera, destroying all plants... and generally makes a huge mess of things. Eh, well. It'll probably be alright in the end. Probably...
• American Arts Commemorative Series medallions (nominated by RHM22) American Arts Commemorative Series medallions are ten gold-coloured medals that depict American artists, architects, writers, poets and musicians. They were made from 90% gold and 10% copper; later issues had a smidgen of silver to alter the appearance. The medallions were intended to compete with Krugerrands and other gold bullion coins. They were made in two sizes, "one ounce", containing one Troy ounce of gold, or 31 grams, and "half ounce", containing 16 grams of gold, and were sold to the public for the market price of the gold content "plus the cost of manufacture, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses including marketing costs." Which, by our reckoning, makes the half-ounce coin a bit expensive compared with its big brother. The gold price was set using the previous day's closing price on the London bullion market, so sales rose and fell depending on whether the price of gold had risen or fallen in the meantime. Not that they sold very well at the best of times: They were eventually withdrawn from the market and replaced by a gold coin. If you're thinking of buying one, the rarest is the 1983 half-ounce Alexander Calder, of which it's estimated there's only 8,000 of these left. Why not buy several and make a mobile: it'll still be cheaper than buying one of Calder's mobiles.
• Cucurbita (nominated by HalfGig, Sminthopsis84, and Chiswick Chap) The genus Cucurbita, which includes butternut squash, courgettes (zucchinis to our American readers), various pumpkins, and other squashes and gourds, is a delicious and important part of the human food supply. Evidence of domestication goes back at least eight thousand years in the Americas, and happened as far north as Canada and as far south as Argentina. Cucurbita pepo, a species with a wide variety of cultivars including the famous orange pumpkin, is believed to be one of the oldest domesticated plants, if not the oldest. They reached Europe after Columbus' voyage, with the earliest record dating to 1515. Famously, pumpkins replaced the traditional turnip in the carving of jack-o'-lanterns. This Hallowe'en, say no to revisionism. Carve a turnip. Then have a nice pumpkin pie or a butternut squash stew, because they're delicious, hearty meals for a cold autumnal evening. Or, if you live in a place unlike Scotland where it's hot in October, then, if they're available and not out of season, why not roast pumpkin and butternut squash, cut them into cubes, add cherry tomatoes, some pine nuts, a little olive oil, perhaps, and have a delicious cold salad?
• Exhumation of Richard III of England (nominated by Prioryman) Long thought to have been thrown from the old Bow Bridge in Leicester into the River Soar, the remains of Richard III of England were rediscovered under a car park once used by social workers. Acting on a hunch, archaeologists dug up part of the site of the long-lost Greyfriars church in which Richard's tomb had been once been located. On the first day of the dig the skeleton of a thirty-year-old man was found, with signs that he'd been severely hacked about, both before and after death. The skeleton's spine was also severely curved in an S-shape, which would have made his right shoulder higher than his left. The skeleton's genome was sequenced, and compared with that of a direct descendant of Richard's sister Anne. It matched, confirming that this was indeed the villain's remains. Following standard archaeological practice it was intended that Richard should be re-interred in the nearest consecrated ground, which is Leicester Cathedral, and, after some controversy, he'll finally be re-interred there on 26 March. Try and get ringside seats: We want featured pictures of his skeleton, and we're running out of time for that.

• The Kiss
  Oh! Sir! You forget yourself!
• Lady Seated at a Virginal
  I am trying to concentrate! If everybody would at least keep quiet, I could start this sonata.
• Self-portrait with Two Pupils
  Oh, Adélaïde, that was wonderfull!

Featured lists

Three featured lists were promoted this week.

• List of scheduled monuments in North Somerset (nominated by Rodw) Over the last year or thereabouts, we've had a long series of list of scheduled monuments - historical sites or buildings of national importance - from the various administrative divisions of Somerset, England. Like all in that series, there has been a valiant effort to get photographs for as many monuments as possible. The list includes various prehistoric burial sites, including the fairly well-known Aveline's Hole and quite a number of barrows, complete with barrow wights if my Tolkein has taught me anything; Bronze and Iron Age hillforts and other settlements, deserted Roman and Medieval towns, farmsteads, castles and houses; village and church crosses, a relatively well-preserved priory, 17th and 18th century industrial buildings, and even a World War I gun emplacement.
• Savilian Professor of Astronomy (nominated by Bencherlite) Created by Henry Savile in 1619, this professorship at the University of Oxford was part of a campaign to improve the understanding of mathematics in England, alongside the related Savilian Professorship of Geometry. Originally requiring an understanding of Aristotle and Plato to have begun before any higher sciences were studied, this original part of the bequest has likely been dropped long ago. With a number of great scientists and researchers, the Savillian Professors include twenty people who can be said to have improved our understanding of astronomy and related fields, and also include George Johnson.
• List of New York Islanders draft picks (nominated by Gloss) Description

• Kullervo, from Finnish mythology, cursing shirtlessly
• Eugen Sandow, posing in very little clothing. Though this is somewhat well-dressed for him...
• "Thor will deal with the nudity! Thor SMASH!"
  "...Could you try less smash?"
  "No, thinking is for the weak! Thor SMASH!!"

Featured pictures

The numbers after "Description..." are meaningless, and can be deleted. It's easier to do replaces in Notepad, as higher-level word processors tend to make all the '''s into smart quotes, so it was easier to remove most of the date than all the date... Forty (!!!) featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Old Route 66 (created by Dietmar Rabich (XRay), nominated by Crisco 1492) Old Route 66 is a photo by ietmar Rabich (XRay). Get your kicks with this scenic highway, depicted here as it enters Amboy, California. The historic U.S. Route 66 used to travel from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California, and it remains a behemoth of American popular culture.
• Young Knight in a Landscape (created by Vittore Carpaccio, nominated by Hafspajen) Portrait of a Knight (Carpaccio), 1510, is a painting by the classic Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio, in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection in Madrid. The painting shows a young knight, surrounded by a series of symbols. The heron fighting with the hawk in the sky might hint a battle, an alternative theory is that this is a memorial portrait. In the left lower corner is a white ermine and a scroll stating "I prefer to die rather than to incur dishonour" ( malo mori quam foedari ). The European legend had it that a white stoat would rather die before allowing its pure white coat to be besmirched, thus could be an allusion to the knight's pure character and moral - or maybe his fate. The symbolism of these and the other animals and plants have been much discussed by art historians.
• Self-Portrait with Two Pupils (created by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, nominated by Hafspajen and Crisco 1492) Self-Portrait with Two Pupils is a painting painted by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (sitting) a self-portrait, depicting her with two of her pupils Marie-Gabrielle Capet and (red link) Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond. Labille-Guiard was a woman painter who trained other woman artist, because other art schools were not publicly open for women. These three woman were unusual woman artists, that counted among their customers several members of the royal family, and even other members of the French Paris society. Unfortunately the Art Academies was not open to women, and women painters had the not serious enough stamp over them. Labille-Guiard in the early 1790s campaigned for the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture to be reopened to women. It did, but the woman members of the Acadamy were still limited to only four. The painting Self-Portrait with Two Pupils was part of campaign when exhibited at the Salon at the French Académie Royale, as a protest against this fact. Fast quiz: QUIZ, check your knowledge about women painters.
• Lady Seated at a Virginal (created by Johannes Vermeer, nominated by SchroCat) Lady Seated at a Virginal is a painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Vermeer, The National Gallery,
• Triple Portrait of Cardinal de Richelieu (created by Philippe de Champaigne, nominated by SchroCat) Charles I in Three Positions is a painting by Philippe de Champaigne (1602 – 1674) who was a Brabançon-born French Baroque era painter, and a founding member of the French Academy for painting and sculpture. He was mainly active in Paris, where he portrayed the entire French court, the French high nobility, royalty, high members of the church and the state, parliamentarians and architects and other notable people, some more than once. And he was simply crazy about Cardinal de Richelieu, he painted him from the left, right, facing him, sitting, standing ... sometimes he painted him three times in the same painting too... he just simply couldn't have enough of him. Or was it the other way round*?
• Thor (created by Mårten Eskil Winge, nominated by Armbrust) Description...3
• Bath Abbey set: Exterior, nave looking east, and nave looking west (created and nominated by David Iliff) Description...

• Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel (created by Francisco Goya, nominated by SchroCat) Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel is a painting by ... A Spanish Lay dressed festively with a high whatever on his head,

• Kullervo Cursing (created by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, nominated by Crisco 1492) Kullervo Cursing is a painting by the Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela, depicted cursing cows, turning them into bears so that he can have revenge on a woman who tormented him. Kullervo is an ill-fated character from the Finnish Kalevala epos. Kullervo is the only tragic character in Finnish mythology. He survived a massacre on his tribe and was raised by his enemy Untamo's tribe. Kullervo grew up thinking his family was dead. In this story, the child grows up among people who hate him and whom he does not trust, knowing that they were his people's murderers. Later he was sold into slavery, and was mocked and tormented, and thus he grows up hating people around him. When he finally runs away from them he finds his family only to lose them again, while unknowingly had sexual relations with his sister, who, like him, was lost, and seduces her without knowing who she is. When she finds out it was her own brother that seduced her, she commits suicide. Kullervo became mad with rage and returns where he was raised and, using his powers, he exterminates Untamo and his tribe and after this, he commits suicide. The story of Kullervo differs from all other folktales in that it describes the effects of child abuse. In the end of the poem the character Väinämöinen especially warns all parents about abusing their children:

Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,

As he hears the joyful tidings,

Learns the death of fell Kullervo,

Speaks these words of ancient wisdom:

"O, ye many unborn nations,

Never evil nurse your children,

Never give them out to strangers,

Never trust them to the foolish!

If the child is not well nurtured,

Is not rocked and led uprightly,

Though he grow to years of manhood,

Bear a strong and shapely body,

He will never know discretion,

Never eat the bread of honor,

Never drink the cup of wisdom.

• The Kiss (created by Francesco Hayez, nominated by Hafspajen) The Kiss, a word used to name many works of art, is a representation of a passionate kiss, by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez from 1859, possibly his best known work. This painting conveys the main features of Italian Romanticism and has come to represent the spirit of the Risorgimento. The painting represents a couple embracing and kissing each other. The magical kiss is one of the most passionate and intense representations of a kiss in the history of Western art. The painting is enormously popular in Italy, and is seen as a symbol of Italian Romanticism, that emphasizes deep feelings rather than rational thought, and presents a reinterpretation and a reevaluation of the Middle Ages romantic love ideals. In a patriotic and nostalgic tone.
• Caucasus embroidery (unknown creator; nominated by Alborzagros) Apparently this is Verni or an Azerbaijani kilim, a flat-weave rug (rather than one that has a knotted pile). The relevant articles appear to have been written by a carpet salesman.
• Moss leaf cells (created by Des Callaghan, nominated by The Herald) Live leaf cells of the moss Bryum capillare form a beautiful repeating pattern. Sadly, our article on the genus is terrible: Your project for the week is to improve it to "tolerable". There's only a few letters difference between terrible and tolerable, so it shouldn't be too hard!
• Toyota FJ Cruiser (created by Stefan Krause, nominated by FakeShemp) The Toyota FJ Cruiser is a retro-styled SUV introduced by Toyota in 2005. It's a rugged performer, and has been offered in variants such as the Trail Teams Special Edition, and the ARB Edition FJ Crawler. The "F" stands for the engine fitted and, according to the official Toyota blog, the "J" stands for "Jeep"- the original Land Cruiser of the 1950s used a "B" engine, and was known as the Toyota Jeep BJ.
• Woman in Blue Reading a Letter (created by Johannes Vermeer, nominated by SchroCat) Woman Reading a Letter is a painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It was the first Vermeer acquired by the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, in 1885. The painting depicts ...a Woman Reading a Letter. The woman wears a blue silk dress, and is standing in front of a window reading a letter, and some clues in the painting suggest (like the map of the Netherlands on the wall behind) that the letter was written by a traveling husband or a lover. Those were the days. People wrote and read letters.
• Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (created by Bronzino, nominated by Étienne Dolet) Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time is a complicated, obscure and ambivalent allegorical painting by the Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino. The themes of the painting appear to be lust, deceit, and jealousy, displaying the kind of eroticism, that was characteristic of the Mannerist period, and mirrors the tastes of this time. It depicts Venus, holding a golden apple she won in the Judgement of Paris, Cupid, Time, at the upper right of the scene with a the hourglass, pulling away a curtain revealing what will come. The identity of the other figures, remain uncertain. The screaming figure has interpreted Jealousy or Despair — though some believe her to represent the ravaging effects of syphilis, meaning that one single tempting, desirable mistake can have terrible consequences - later. The creature at the right-hand extending a honeycomb may represent Pleasure or Fraud, the boy scattering roses as Folly and Pleasure. The painting was brought by Napoleon from Paris to Vienna, and today it is hosted by the National Gallery, London.
• Portrait of an African Man (created by Jan Mostaert, nominated by Crisco 1492)Portrait of an African Man is a painting by Jan Mostaert. The subject of a recent new article and DYK, this painting depicts an unidentified African man who has been speculated to be a soldier, a nobleman, or Saint Maurice. It portrays the only black man in early modern European painting in an independent way. Now, when can we get a painting of an African man by an African artist?
• Jeju Province (created by NASA, nominated by Alborzagros)Jeju Province is a photo that got recently featured. This is Jeju Island, home to Jeju Province, one of the nine provinces of South Korea. Up until 1910 the islanders were regarded as foreigners by the mainland Koreans. In 1910 Korea, including Jeju, was annexed by Japan, and a period of hardship and oppression followed for the islanders. In 1948 a year-long uprising against local government and police forces resulted in the deaths of between 14,000 and 30,000 islanders in a period of violent suppression, massacres and executions.
• Chocolate brownie (created by ɱ, nominated by The Herald)Chocolate brownie is a featured photo, depicting ... a chocolate brownie. It's brown, it's got chocolate, it's a chocolate brownie. It's a nice, quite tempting bit. Perfect to make make your own Wikilove with... Or go out in your kitchen and bake one... because… why not? Just melt a precise 8 ounces of chocolate with the butter and add a very small amount of flour, also add 3/4 cup of granulated sugar, which sweetens up if semi-sweet chocolate is used, also add 1/4 cup of brown sugar, which gives a moist, fuggy texture... go on add 3 eggs, which give the brownies a fudgy texture, try to also to add chocolate chips or chunks to the brownie batter. You can even add chocolate frosting on top. We take no responsability for this luxury brownie recipe. If you want to go safe, try the naked chef's brownie instead.
• British soldiers loading a shrapnel shell (created by Photopress, restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden) The gun is a "Quick Firing 18-pounder and the shrapnel shell being loaded has the typical red-painted tip (below the fuse) and band. The shrapnel shells fired by the British army used a time and percussion fuze designed by the German arms manufacturer Krupp in 1905. They were manufactured under licence by Vickers, who had to pay Krupp £40,000 in royalties after the war. These shells were fired at a rate of up to 1 million a week; many fell into soft mud and failed to explode… so if you go camping in a Flanders field, be careful where you hammer in the tent pegs.
• Bulb Fields (created by Vincent van Gogh, nominated by Crisco 1492)Bulb Fields, completed in 1883, is van Gogh's first garden painting. So many flowers here, almost as many as the number of van Goghs we've featured. It shows several rows of tulips in the artist's native Holland. Now, what the article really needs is how many individual flowers there are. Get counting! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:35, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
• At the Café (created by Édouard Manet, nominated by SchroCat) .... People sitting, eating and drinking, not only coffee, it looks like.

• Messier 106 (created by NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team and Robert Gendler with acknowledgment to R. Jay GaBany; nominated by The Herald) Description... Hubble Bubble - more stars in the sky.

• CG 4 (created by ESO, nominated by The Herald) Description...6

• Ocellaris clownfish (created by Nick Hobgood, nominated by Jim Carter) The photo depicts an ocellaris clownfish, a nice little fish in loved with an anemone. They can be found near northern Australia, Southeast Asia, and Japan. The clownfish have a particular lifestyle. They are born male and at some point in their lifespan change sex to female. They are also completely dependent on its sea anemone, wich they have they have a symbiotic relationship with, because they need the anemone for survival and shelter. When the fish is chased, it will run to the sea anemone, that will sting every fish but the clownfish. In exchange the clownfish keeps the anemone clean.
• L'Absinthe (created by Edgar Degas, nominated by Crisco 1492 and SchroCat) "Absinthe is not good for you" was the consensus at the time Degas completed this painting, and it's clear that he agreed. The seated people are off center, and staring off into the distance, sitting so near to each other, yet also sitting miles apart. The drab colors suggest a life wasted, one of loss and depression, similar to how the French were facing social isolation in the face of advanced modernization and development. Now, why am I thirsty?
• An International High Noon Divorce (created by Samuel D. Ehrhart, restored by Adam Cuerden, and nominated by Adam Cuerden and Paris 16) An International High Noon Divorce is a caricature by Samuel D. Ehrhart, illustrating the the circus-like atmosphere of divorce between Anna Gould and Le Comte Boni de Castellane. Anna Gould is depicted holding a bouquet made of indictments against her husband.Time magazine wrote on April 13, 1925:: Probably not since Henry VIII tried in vain to get an annulment of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon has a matrimonial case been so long in the courts of the Roman Catholic Church as that on which nine Cardinals have just handed down a final decision. The male in this case is the son of one of France's most historic houses − Le Comte Boni de Castellane. The female is the daughter of a United States stockbroker, the late Jay Gould − the present Anna, Marquise de Talleyrand Périgord, Duchesse de Sagan. On March 14, 1895, Anna became La Comtesse de Castellane by a marriage solemnized in Manhattan by the late Archbishop Corrigan. After three children were born, La Comtesse obtained a civil divorce from Le Comte on grounds of infidelity. In 1908, she married Le Marquis de Talleyrand Périgord, Duc de Sagan. Thereupon, Le Comte asked the Vatican to annul the marriage, apparently that he might be free to marry again, within the Church.
• Eugen Sandow (created by D. Bernard & Co, Melbourne; restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden) The photo shows the early bodybuilder Eugen Sandow modelling. Biffy and great, the bodybuilding's father stands in a striking position on this picture. He wanted from the beginning to illustrate the Ideal which he introduced to bodybuilding. He even posed as the statue The Dying Gaul, consistently trying to model his body after the ancient Greek and Roman beauty ideals.
• Portrait of Dr. Gachet (created by Vincent van Gogh, nominated by SchroCat) Portrait of Dr. Gachet depicts Dr. Paul Gachet, the doctor who never cured van Gogh. He was the doctor who took care of Van Gogh during the final months of his life. Vincent van Gogh's first impression of Gachet was unfavorable. Writing to Theo he remarked: "I think that we must not count on Dr. Gachet at all. First of all, he is sicker than I am, I think, or shall we say just as much, so that's that. Now when one blind man leads another blind man, don't they both fall into the ditch?" This remark shows that one should always trust ones first impressions. To bad that he started rationalizing, instead of getting the **** out of that place in high speed - who knows he might have lived like 50 years more, and what a loss for humanity. He was only 37 when he committed suicide. The painting was sold for the first in 1897 by Van Gogh's sister-in-law for 300 francs, while in 1990, it was sold a record price of 82.5 million dollars at auction in New York.
• Ridge between Segla and Hesten (created by Simo Räsänen (Ximonic), nominated by Jim Carter) Description...7FIXING THAT HAFFY

• Margaret Lee (created by Hans Holbein the younger or his workshop, nominated by Crisco 1492) Description...the lady-in-waiting on the picture looks a bit severe and harsh, but then ladies-in-waiting were not supposed to overshine their patrons. At least she doesn't drink absinthe.

• Heliconius ismenius (created by Diego Delso, nominated by Jim Carter) The Tiger Heliconian is a orange and black striped butterfly found in Central and northern South America, known for feeding only on specific plants like granadilla. They are toxic and non-palatable to predators, and the pattern showing beautiful orange and black tiger stripes along the long wings is warning - don't eat me, I taste bad, man!
• The Absinthe Drinker (created by Édouard Manet, nominated by SchroCat)The Absinthe Drinker is a painting by Edouard Manet from .... A devotee of the Green Fairy is already in the company of the green fairy, having drunk her Fairy Liquid. There is a glass of green absinthe beside him, to the right. A dark shadow is behind him is haunting him for messing around with the bottle... Absinthe was not good for you. It's the thujone that causes the damage- the active ingredient of the infused wormwood. But only when drunk in excess or over-regularly.
• King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers (created by Alexander Roslin, nominated by SagaciousPhil) King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers is a painting by Alexander Roslin, painted in Paris, 1771. Gustav (left) and his two brothers are gathered around a table, studying a plan of fortifications, in flattering flashy velvet, lace and silk clothes, a là Rococo fashion. Frederick is standing and Charlie is to the right. Gustav III was King of Sweden from 1771 until his death - when he was sadly assassinated during a masquerade ball. He was an enlightened ruler who fostered the arts, sciences and education, and was building up the Swedish culture - *(from scratch, mainly) . Gustav III attracted many artists to his court, and when they didn't came to him he went to visit them instead, like he went visiting Roslin in Paris, to sit for him for this painting. Roslin's talent was greatly appreciated by all kinds of royalty, who all wanted to look good when they finally get into Signpost. His ability to capture the personality of the people gives us a chance to get close to the people he painted. His masterful ability to reproduce the silks, lace, pearls and gold filaments made him a real asset in those days - and even today. If you magnify the painting, the artistic rendering of the fabrics and other objects is masterful and truly spectacular.
• Discharge tubes set: Helium, Neon, Argon, and Krypton (created by Alchemist-hp, nominated by The Herald) Description...

• The Allegory of Faith (created by Johannes Vermeer, nominated by SchroCat) The Allegory of Faith, also known as Allegory of the Catholic Faith, a painting created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life in about 1670–72. Since 1931, this painting been located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The painting depicts a woman in a fine white and blue satin dress with gold trimmings. She sits on a platform a step higher than the black and white marble floor, her right foot on a terrestrial globe and her right hand on her heart as she looks up, adoringly, at a glass sphere hung from the ceiling by a blue ribbon. Vermeer's iconography in the painting is largely taken from Cesare Ripa's Iconologia, an emblem book (a collection of allegorical illustrations with accompanying morals or poems on a moral theme) which had been translated into Dutch in 1644 by D. P. Pers.

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• The woman at the top doesn't look happy.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:06, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

• Among this week's strangers (to me), Kullervo and Anna Gould and Eugene Sandow are delightful. Well done. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:00, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
  

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