Talk:Nabis (art)

etymology
Where does the word "Nabi" come from? I don't know any such word in French; the closest word I know to "Nabi" is the Hebrew and Arabic word for "prophet". -phma

Janson claims that the name is from the Hebrew Nabi, and considering the fascination of the artistic movement in question with Biblical imagery, such as Salome, it would make sense to be Biblically inspired. Where is the source that they were named after the Arabic word? What is the connection to Arabic? Tiberian Hebrew and Modern Hebrew both pronounce the word as Navi. However, when Romanized a "b" is used (much as the second letter of modern Greek is transliterated "beta" and not "vita"). I am changing it to Hebrew.

Egasterium is supposed to be ergasterium....I think. Please change it back if it is the former. (Unsigned post).


 * Verkade himself talks about 'der Kreis der Nabis oder besser "Nebiim", wie der Plural dieses Wortes eigentlich heisst' - that is, 'the circle of the Nabis, or rather "Nebiim", as the plural of this word should properly be'. (Willibrord (Jan) Verkade, Die Unruhe zu Gott (Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1930 Edition), p. 67.) Does that help? I have read somewhere that it means The Prophet(s). Eebahgum (talk) 22:52, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

What's about...
... some more recent, more serious art historical informations (I supply only one of some important reference works), and a little more discipline in quoting, supplying references? Is it so difficult to sign? --rpd (talk) 21:19, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Galleries
I am going to be adding more sections, text and images; I think galleries will be needed for each section, since the images will otherwise spill into the later sections. Cordially, SiefkinDR (talk) 10:06, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 10 March 2024

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. – robertsky (talk) 21:42, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Les Nabis → Nabis (art) – Per WP:COMMONNAME. See recent discussion at Talk:Nabis of Sparta. "Les Nabis" is a French-language rendering which is not predominantly used by English-language reliable sources. Note that this also affects Category:Les Nabis. 162 etc. (talk) 17:30, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Move to Nabis (also support as proposed). The movement got |Nabis|Nabis_(genus)|National_Ballistics_Intelligence_Service 65% of pageviews even when competing with another topic at the base title. Long-term significance is evidenced by Google Books and WorldCat exclusively returning results for the group, and JSTOR has the art meaning as the majority of hits. Ebscohost and Scholar are mixed between many (some non-notable) meanings, though Scholar does give the group first in a search of nabis -author:nabi. Hameltion (talk &#124; contribs) 18:25, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Either Nabis (art) or The Nabis is fine as a move target. We should not move to just Nabis because we don't know that it's the primary topic (65% of page views does not actually mean the average English reader associates this term with this topic so strongly that there's a risk of astonishing anyone without a redirect). We discussed this already recently, there's no rush to do this (once we have the clickstreams from the list, which means a couple of months to get a few monthly samples, it will be possible to analyze that better). --Joy (talk) 20:15, 11 March 2024 (UTC)