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This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 18 January 2015 through 24 January 2015. Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.

Featured articles

Three featured articles were promoted this week.

Banksia lemanniana, which like a phoenix is killed by bushfire and regenerates from its seed!
Japanese battleship Fuji, the namesake of the Fuji-class battleships. Potential FP!

These should probably be a teensy-weensy bit loooonger.

Featured lists

Five featured lists were promoted this week.

Sumela is the subject of a new featured picture.

Featured pictures

Thirty-nine featured pictures were promoted this week, mainly van Goghs.

Lichfield Cathedral by David Iliff.
Ilya Efimovich Repin's Barge Haulers on the Volga.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party.
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein's Goethe in the Roman Campagna
Seen here: "Breathing concentrated otto / An existence á là Watteau". Specifically, Watteau's The Embarkation for Cythera.
Vincent van Gogh's Ploughed Fields ('The Furrows').
ALT***Ahem that is not a weat field, how's this?
ALTOR File:Vincent van Gogh - Wheatfield under thunderclouds - Google Art Project.jpg
  • Goethe in the Roman Campagna (created by ], ] by ]) Goethe in the Roman Campagna is a painting from 1787 by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, a German Neoclassical painter, depicting Johann Wolfgang von Goethe whilst the writer was travelling in Italy. Goethe's book on his travels to Italy from 1786–88, called Italian Journey, was published in 1816–17; the book is based on his diaries. Since he was already rather famous, following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, he travelled incognito, and called himself Filippo Miller, pittore, a rather phony alias, we think. The Sorrows of Young Werther was a loosely autobiographical novel first published in 1774; its publication turning him from an unknown 24-year-old into one of the first international literary celebrities practically overnight, causing "Werther Fever" making young men throughout Europe to dress as Werther was described in the novel, also making them taking their life's, as Werther did - the so called copycat suicide, causing concern for the authorities and fellow authors. The hero shoots himself after an ill-fated love, and the book was banned in several countries after it sparked a wave of imitation suicides. Since 1887, the painting has been in the possession of the Städel museum in Goethe's hometown Frankfurt. The painting is a full-length portrait. Goethe is seated trying to look smart and cosy on a couple of uncomfortable ruins - gazing out through the landscape, in deep thoughts, with his eyes resting at infinity - probably only wondering what he will have for lunch.
  • Mr. and Mrs. Atherton (created by ], ] by ]) Mr and Mrs Atherton was painted by Arthur Devis who was an English London portrait and landscape painter and restaurator of a considerable artistic reputation, with a studio in Great Queen Street, where he moved in 1745. He and Sherlock Holmes used to dine together. Oops, wrong century. No he drunk his afternoon tea with Joshua Reynolds and Johann Zoffany instead. Adam, do you drink tea? (just checking that you copyed) He studied with the Flemish painter Peter Tillemans, who became his teacher. Devis received a great number of commissions for portraits, and he depicted some of the sitters in landscapes, where these views and interiors were mostly invented by Devis. That explains though how come that people he painted had so tidy homes. The notable exception is the neo-Gothic library at Arbury Hall shown in Devis's portrait of Sir Roger Newdigate, who holds the plan for the room on his knee, well done, Arthur. Artur had twenty-two children from two wifes. Two, Thomas Anthony Devis (1757–1810) and Arthur William Devis (1762–1822), became painters. Devis's half-brother Anthony Devis (1729–1816) also was a painter.
  • Bellona (created by ], ] by ]) Bellona (by Rembrandt) was an Ancient Roman goddess of war, corresponding to the Ancient Greek Enyo. She was called the sister of Mars, and in some sources, his wife or an associate of his female cult partner Nerio. Bellona's main attribute is the military helmet worn on her head, and she often holds a sword, a shield, or other weapons of battle. Politically, all Roman Senate meetings relating to foreign war were conducted in the Templum Bellonæ (Temple of Bellona) on the Collis Capitolinus outside the pomerium, near the Temple of Apollo Sosianus. The fetiales, a group of priest advisors, conducted ceremonies to proclaim war and peace, and announce foreign treaties at the columna bellica, in front of her temple.
  • Longing (created by ], ] by ]) is a painting by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (8 May 1850, Itu - 13 November 1899, Piracicaba) was a Brazilian artist and designer; one of the first there to paint in the Realistic tradition of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet. The "Dia do Artista Plástico" (Day of Fine Arts in Brazil) is celebrated on his birthday. In 1869, he enrolled at the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes, where he studied with Victor Meirelles and Pedro Américo. His simple, country speech and manners reportedly were the source of much interest and, one might suppose, amusement. After graduating, he chose not to compete for a travel award to Europe, returning instead to Itu, and setting up a studio. His life ended tragically a year later when he was stabbed to death in front of the Hotel Central in Piracicaba by his cousin José de Almeida Sampaio, who had apparently just learned about Júnior's long-standing affair with Maria Laura do Amaral Gurgel; Sampaio's wife who had briefly been engaged to Júnior.
  • Gold crown from Seobongchong Tumulus (created by ], ] by ]) The Crowns of Silla were made in the Korean kingdom of Silla approximately in the 5th-7th centuries of the Common Era. These crowns were excavated in Gyeongju, the former capital of Silla, and are designated National treasures of South Korea. The Silla crowns are very fragile and weigh more than one kilogram. The Silla kings probably did not wear the golden crowns like hats. They were probably used only for formal and ceremonial occasions.
  • Portrait of Henry VIII (created by ], ] by ]) Henry VIII was a rather controversial person. Getting married to him was not exactly a life insurance, and one can wonder what kind of complexes Freud would have diagnosed his daughter who have witnessed her mother killed by their father. This frantic and zealous divorcing and executing spouses is said to had one goal, securing a male descendant. Ironically it was not the much wanted boy (who died young) that preserved his works, but it was his daughter, in whom he never believed. It might have been faith or a certain opinion in higher places about his evil doings. No wonder though the poor Queen never married... This king who never had much problems executing his enemies, friend or wifes - is presented here to us in a powerful and grand manner. Hm.
  • Luncheon of the Boating Party (created by ], ] by ]) Luncheon of the Boating Party, from 1881 is a painting by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Included in the Seventh Impressionist Exhibition in 1882, it was identified as the best painting in the show by three critics. It was purchased from the artist by the dealer-patron Paul Durand-Ruel and bought in 1923 (for $125,000) from his son by Duncan Phillips. It is now in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. It shows a richness of form, a fluidity of brush stroke, and a flickering light. The painting, combining figures, still-life, and landscape in one work, depicts a group of Renoir's friends relaxing on a balcony at the Maison Fournaise along the Seine river in Chatou, France. The painter and art patron, Gustave Caillebotte, is seated in the lower right. Renoir's future wife, Aline Charigot, is in the foreground playing with a small dog. On the table is fruit and wine.
  • Haller Madonna (created by ], ] by ]) The Haller Madonna is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to around 1498, showing the Madonna on one side and a Biblical scene of Lot and his daughters on the other side. The madonna is painted on the front, the reverse side of the painting is depicting Lot and his family fleeing. The painting is now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528) was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance, and has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation. His vast body of work includes altarpieces, religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. On the opposite side of the same panel the Madonna is painted on is another featured painting by Dürer, Lot's Flight, a depiction of Lot and his family fleeing from the doomed city of Sodom Sodom, with a landscape including a flaming town in the background. Since the two scenes are unrelated, it has been supposed that the panel was originally part of a diptych, with the other panel showing the donor next to Lot and his children. The two images were promoted as a set: How else could one handle such an unusual artwork?
  • Sumela Monastery (created by ], ] by ]) The Sumela Monastery (Moní Panagías Soumelá) is a Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Panagia, meaning "All Holy" in Greek) at Melá Mountain (Turkish: Karadağ, which is a direct translation of the Greek name Ssou Melá, "Black Mountain") within the Pontic Mountains (Turkish: Kuzey Anadolu Dağları) range, in the Maçka district of Trabzon Province in modern Turkey. Nestled in a steep cliff at an altitude of about 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) facing the Altındere valley, it is a site of great historical and cultural significance, as well as a major tourist attraction within Altındere National Park.
  • Argiope pulchella (created by ], ] by ]) Argiope pulchella is a species of Orb Spider belonging to the family Araneidae. It ranges from India to China and can be found on Java. It builds a web with a zig-zag stabilimentum. This species has a pentagonal opisthosoma (abdomen).
  • The Embarkation for Cythera (created by ], ] by ]) The Embarkation for Cythera ("L'Embarquement pour Cythère") is a painting by the French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. It is also known as "Voyage to Cythera" and "Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera". Watteau submitted this work to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as his reception piece in 1717. The painting is now in the Louvre in Paris. A second version of the work, sometimes called Pilgrimage to Cythera to distinguish it, was painted by Watteau about 1718 or 1719 and is in the Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin. The painting portrays a "fête galante"; an amorous celebration or party enjoyed by the aristocracy of France during the Régence after the death of Louis XIV, which is generally seen as a period of dissipation and pleasure, and peace, after the sombre last years of the previous reign. The work celebrates love, with many cupids flying around the couples and pushing them closer together, as well as the statue of Venus (the goddess of sexual love). There are three pairs of lovers in the foreground. While the couple on the right by the statue are still engaged in their passionate tryst, another couple rises to follow a third pair down the hill, although the woman of the third pair glances back fondly at the goddess’s sacred grove.


---Waiting on Haffy

  • Dynjandi (created by ], ] by ]) Dynjandi (also known as Fjallfoss) is a series of waterfalls located in the Westfjords (Vestfirðir), Iceland. The waterfalls have a cumulative height of 100 metres (330 ft).
  • The Miracle at the Grave of Elisha (created by ], ] by ]) Elisha was a great prophet and a great wonderworker. The touch of his corpse served to resuscitate a dead man. A year after Elisha's death and burial a body was placed in his grave. As soon as the body touched Elisha's remains the man '"stood up on his feet"' and went home. It has been said, that this dead man was Shallum, son of Tikvah, keeper of the temple-wardrobe in the reign of Josiah and husband of Huldah the prophetess. So he went home and made a great fuss about having a meal immediately to the prophetess.
  • Luncheon Still Life (created by ], ] by ]) Luncheon Still Life by John F. Francis (1808 – 1886) was an American self-taught painter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who painted mostly still lifes. He worked until 1845 as a portrait painter and his early portraits reveal his fascination with details. An other American artist, Raphaelle Peale established still lifes as a popular genre in Philadelphia and Francis began to concentrate on the genre and by 1854 he had ceased to paint anything else. Francis became known as a leading practitioner of luncheon and dessert still life paintings, developing an intricate vocabulary of forms required by his specialized subject. William H. Gerdts writes: "Of all the mid-century still-life specialists, Francis was the most painterly. There is often a freshness and a brio to his paint application that successfully balance his sure delineation of form and his establishment of texture." Nearly all of his paintings depict fruits and desserts. He painted many replicas of his works, and his style underwent little change over the course of his career. According to art historian Alfred Frankenstein, "his blond, high-keyed palette always provides one of the most distinctive accents in a general exhibition of American still life".
  • The Fall of the Titans (created by ], ] by ])The Fall of the Titans is an oil painting of the Titanomachy made by the Dutch painter Cornelis van Haarlem in 1588–1590. The painting's dimensions are 239 × 307 cm (94 × 121 in). The work is in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, Denmark. Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (1562 – 11 November 1638), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, was one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important forerunner of Frans Hals as a portraitist.
  • Choir looking west, choir looking east, high altar, columns in the nave, organ, and exterior view of Lichfield Cathedral (created by ], ] by ]) Description...
  • Interior with Portraits (created by ], ] by ])Interior with Portraits is an 1865 genre scene painted by American artist Thomas Le Clear. The painting features two children, James and Parnell Sidway, posing for a photograph in an artist's studio. The painting was commissioned by the subjects' older brother, Franklin Sidway. Parnell died of illness as an adolescent; James, a volunteer firefighter, died in a hotel fire at the age of 26, shortly before the painting was commissioned. Both children were painted posthumously from family daguerreotypes. Some painters of the time regarded photography with suspicion, and refused to use photographs as references for portraits. The painting is filled with references to this tension. The children are surrounded by painted portraits, and the photographer's back is to the viewer with his face obscured. The girl appears to be supporting the boy and holding him still, as might have been necessary when posing a child for an early photograph due to the long exposure time. A dog is depicted just entering the studio, another acknowledgement of early photography's limitation to still subjects.
  • Barge Haulers on the Volga (created by ], ] by ])Barge Haulers on the Volga or Burlaki is an 1870–1873 oil-on-canvas painting by the Russian realist painter and sculptor Ilya Repin. This painting depicts eleven Russian peasants hauling a large boat upstream on the Volga River. The burlaks seem to almost collapse forward in exhaustion under the burden. The painting is both a celebration of the men's dignity and fortitude, and a highly emotional condemnation of those who sanctioned such inhumane labour. Although they are presented as stoical and accepting, the men are largely surrendered to their inhuman fate, the hard conditions and the hopeless lives they lived that has defeated them. Only one stands out: in the center of both the row and canvas, a brightly coloured youth fights against his leather binds and stand straight up still. A little golden cross is seen on his chest, the Russian people's secret strength that kept them upright under all hardships and poverty during their turbulent history. This painting is regarded as beginning of the Russian realism, though it is more sophisticated then its followers
  • Vincent van Gogh Wheat Field Set: Enclosed Field with Ploughman; Wheat Field with Alpilles Foothills in the Background; Harvest in Provence; Ploughed Fields ('The Furrows'); Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background; Wheat Field with Reaper; Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves; Green Wheat Field with Cypress; Wheat Field in Rain; Landscape from Saint-Rémy; Wheat Field with Cornflowers; Enclosed Field with Peasant; Wheat Field with Crows; and Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds (created by ], ] by ]) Wheat Fields (Van Gogh series) is a series of paintings made by Vincent van Gogh borne out of his religious studies and sermons, connection to nature, appreciation of manual laborers. The wheat field works demonstrate his progression as an artist from the worst rather colourless fields he painted in 1885 in the Netherlands to the colorful, dramatic paintings from Arles, and other rural parts of France. Van Gogh was planning from the beginning to became a minister but the religious community rejected him, they found him overly fervent, but also to ascetic when Vincent began to give away most of his food and clothing to the poverty-stricken people under his care. Van Gogh, when failing to find a vocation in ministry, turned to art as a means to express and communicate his deepest sense of the meaning of life, painting themes that were related to the vine and bread - the bread that came from the crops of the fields. Van Gogh's brushstrokes in staccato are especially suited to depict the straws of the wheat field, giving them a special look and life....




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