Talk:Juan Sánchez Cotán

Unsourced text and Copyright Violations

Much of the text, particularly in the Still Lives section, reads like evaluative prose copied from an art textbook. None of it is specifically sourced. It appears that much of it is taken verbatim or nearly so from Food in Painting: from the Renaissance to the present by Kenneth Bendiner (2004), which is cited in the references, and also Ingo F. Walther, Masterpieces of Western Art: A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies (1999)(which is not cited).

For example, Food in Painting, page 89, reads:

"Some art historians describe Sánchez Cotán’s spare representations of fruit and vegetables as abstemious images, and link these works to the artist’s late attachment to a Carthusian monastary. They are supposed to express a monastic denial of worldly pleasure and riches."

And from Masterpieces of Western Art (page unknown, GoogleBooks search):

"For all the naturalism with which they are depicted, the isolation of each object, heightened further by the black background, makes each of them seem extremely artificial and lends them a monumental, almost sculptural gravity."

This article needs serious fixing. Ecphora (talk) 14:30, 12 January 2011 (UTC)