Talk:Saturnia pavonia
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mature caterpillar seen 28/8/07 glendarlough, wicklow mountains, ireland. partway up a heather & bracken-coated mountain82.18.82.149 17:17, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Whatever Van Gogh thought it was...[edit]
A very interesting painting by Van Gogh, and its name is certainly (according to the Van Gogh Museum) "death's head hawkmoth" (Grote nachtpauwoog)..<ref>{{cite web|last1=Van Gogh|first1=Vincent|title=Grote nachtpauwoog|url=http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/s0189V1962|publisher=Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam|accessdate=19 October 2015|date=June 1889}}</ref> Its back definitely bears a death's head, so it must be Atropos; but its wing pattern looks like Saturnia. Did the great man combine the two? Was he familiar with Saturnia but wanted to depict the deathly moth somehow? We need, I think, a definite reference for this, rather than committing visual WP:OR by deciding these matters for ourselves.Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:24, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
- Information added to the discussion on File talk:Van Gogh - Totenkopfschwärmer auf Aronstab.jpeg. Cheers. Snjón (talk) 15:39, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
