Talk:Portrait of Maria Portinari
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Will someone please fix the first paragraph? It has been vandalized and I am not sure how to do it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sjones5922 (talk • contribs) 19:09, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
someone has fixed it, thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sjones5922 (talk • contribs) 19:11, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
Nicely done
editTerrific entry. JNW (talk) 23:11, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks JNW. Someday I'll be as able to work here as skillfully as seen in your edit history. Ceoil (talk) 23:21, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, your contributions here have been tremendous. JNW (talk) 22:26, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
Holding
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For further reading, (to ip hopping fiend, hadn't gotten that far in reading yet). Notwithstanding, pls feel free to comment. Ceoil (talk) 06:54, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
Name
editWhat was her actual name? Was it ever "Maria Maddalena Baroncelli Portinari"? --Hegvald (talk) 19:35, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- She would have been nee as Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, now corrected. Ceoil (talk) 20:27, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Tommaso was an intimate of Charles the Bold
editWhat exactly does this mean? The name indicates an intimate relationship, possibly a physical one, but this isn't mentioned in either of their articles. If it refers to the loans extended to one of the men, it's not clear from the wording and I think perhaps either the words should be changed or linked to the explanation of the words. Sephiroth storm (talk) 11:00, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
- Good point. Now changed to "a confidant". Ceoil (talk) 22:46, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
Other articles
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Some Wikipedias have separate articles on the portrait of Tommaso and Maria:
but others have articles on the pair of portraits together, as they are presented by the Met:
It is easy to do interwiki links for the former, but I don't know how we can handle the latter. Perhaps we can squeeze a side-by-side diptych image (right) in somewhere? 213.205.240.185 (talk) 13:41, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
Potential tidbit for the "Commission" section
edit@Ceoil: Margaret Koster writes in The Burlington Magazine that "[t]he Portinari altar-piece claims a privileged status in the history of art, chiefly because it may have been the only Netherlandish altar-piece displayed over an important Italian altar – a singularly tangible example of cultural transfer across the Alps."[1] This seems like an interesting detail to include. Do you think it's worth mentioning in the "Commission" section? Koster's article also seems to have some valuable scholarship about the life of Tommaso Portinari that you might be interested in reading. Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 21:39, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
- D'oh! I'm not sure how I managed to misread this—Koster's article is about the Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, not the portrait of Maria Portinari by Hans Memling. While this isn't related to the portrait of Maria Portinari, Koster does present some previously undiscovered primary sources related to Tommaso Portinari, which I briefly describe here if you'd care to take a look. Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 01:02, 20 December 2018 (UTC)