Talk:Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Translated caption of L'accordée de village
I've added the english translation of L'accordée de village in brackets in the caption of the image, and would just like to know if this is the correct format for such a thing. James.Denholm&reg;Talk to me... 01:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

This reads like...
...it was translated into English from another language. The prose is really, really clunky. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.222.167.120 (talk) 15:59, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

This artist
Like many art articles was pretty badly presented. Art articles NEED galleries. Galleries are not discuraged. Hafspajen (talk) 06:28, 8 October 2014 (UTC) Images in the gallery collectively do have encyclopedic value and add to the reader's understanding of the subject. Galleries are not discuraged. Please see also this discussion here, Talk:Charles Marion Russell.
 * Per WP:IG:

''Images are typically interspersed individually throughout an article near the relevant text (see WP:MOSIMAGES). However, the use of a gallery section may be appropriate in some Wikipedia articles if a collection of images can illustrate aspects of a subject that cannot be easily or adequately described by text or individual images. The images in the gallery collectively must have encyclopedic value and add to the reader's understanding of the subject.''


 * Image use policy say: Sometimes a picture may benefit from a size other than the default; see the Manual of Style for guidance.


 * Manual of style: **As a general rule, images should not be set to a larger fixed size than the 220px default (users can adjust this in their preferences). 'If an exception to the general rule is warranted', forcing an image size to be either larger or smaller than the 220px default is done by placing a parameter in the image coding.


 * The exception from the general rule is most art and art related articles that they do fall into this cathegory, and they are this  exception to the general rule.

Articles which are galleries (i.e. a page of pictures) were once common, but are largely deprecated, being either deleted or having their contents moved to the Wikimedia Commons, which is an image repository for the use of all the different language Wikipedias.

Manual of Style/Visual arts: ' Galleries are often necessary within the body of a VA article. These galleries should relate clearly to the text, be proportionate to it and provide adequate information in the captions. Galleries are important, not just for decoration, but to reinforce and amplify the meaning of the article and to demonstrate meaning and nuance, which cannot be made by words alone.'


 * See here art and art related articles, and architecture articles. These articles do use images larger than thumb. Michelangelo, Ancient Greek architecture, Anglo-Saxon art, La maja desnuda,  Stained glass, Sandro Botticelli, Yixian glazed pottery luohans, Wells Cathedral, Romanticism, History painting, Romanesque architecture, Ambrosius Benson, Portrait of Francesco d'Este, Andrea Mantegna, Crucifix (Cimabue, Santa Croce), Danaë (Titian series), Cambrai Madonna, The Werl Triptych, Portrait of a Young Girl (Christus, Berlin),  Léal Souvenir, Braque Triptych, Death of the Virgin (van der Goes), Miraflores Altarpiece, Madonna of the Dry Tree


 * See here also featured articles - art and art related articles, and architecture articles do use images larger than thumb; as exception to the general rule : Early Netherlandish painting, Holy Thorn Reliquary, The Magdalen Reading, Royal Gold Cup, Madonna in the Church,  Stanford Memorial Church,  Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents,   The Entombment (Bouts),  Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych, Las Meninas, Dresden Triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Magdalen Reading Funerary art .... and so on. Hafspajen (talk) 06:29, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Hafspajen (talk) 06:29, 8 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I like galleries. Let's review a passage you quoted above from Manual of Style/Visual arts—"Galleries are often necessary within the body of a VA article. These galleries should relate clearly to the text, be proportionate to it and provide adequate information in the captions. Galleries are important, not just for decoration, but to reinforce and amplify the meaning of the article and to demonstrate meaning and nuance, which cannot be made by words alone." This seems to me to argue for restraint, and against (for example) placing a gallery of 14 jpgs in an article only 19 sentences long (see Gustave Moreau). When a gallery occupies four times the screen space of the text (see Auguste Toulmouche), it may be considered disproportionate to the article, and is not likely to be adequately supported by the text. VAMOS advises that "Mostly a gallery will be arranged chronologically", which also seems very sound. As a general rule, packed galleries are a bad way to display paintings. Images of sculpture and architecture fare better in packed galleries because such images contain their own space, whereas paintings fill the frame and almost always display better with some space between jpgs. Ewulp (talk) 07:23, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Made it smaller. I didn't liked packed galleries either in the begining - but when there are so many different sizes of paintings, vertical, horizontal, big, smalll - actually packed is quite good. Might write more text to. Hafspajen (talk) 07:41, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Pronunciation of surname?
I'd like to know if anyone can help by providing an accurate pronunciation for his surname. Bricology (talk) 06:45, 17 February 2015 (UTC)