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Love's Messenger

 * ... that Love's Messenger (pictured), an 1885 watercolor painting by Marie Spartali Stillman, shows a red rose, a white dove, a love letter and an embroidery of a blind-folded Cupid?
 * Reviewed: Lange (ski boots)
 * Comment: This would be great for Valentine's Day (February 14)

Created/expanded by Smallbones (talk). Self nom at 03:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg Long enough, new enough, hook fact checks out as OK. Image license is OK. The sources are not online, but the image pretty well supports the hook fact, and a major source (Waking dreams: the art of the pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum) is partially visible in snippet view on Google Books, where I saw some of the quotations in the article. Just one thing needs to be addressed: The sentence Critic Jan Marsh suggests that the studio with the bull's eye windows may have been in Edward Burne-Jones's house "The Grange" in Fulham looks naked without a footnote to a reference. (It's probably from page 262 of the Waking dreams book,but I can't tell.)
 * Other than that, it's essentially ready, but I think the hook possibly could be made more interesting:
 * ALT1 ... that the 1885 watercolor painting Love's Messenger (pictured) shows several symbols of "beauty, love, and abundance of Venus and the sensuality and unpredictability of her son Cupid"?
 * Both the original hook and the ALT are fully supported by sources. --Orlady (talk) 00:15, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Sentence cited (as properly guessed) and agree with ALT1 - much more romantic for the holdiay. (I was probably looking at more from the POV of the guy who forgot to get a Valentine's Day card "Does this pic have everything I need in it?!) . So all agreed. Smallbones (talk) 01:42, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg All good now! --Orlady (talk) 01:43, 13 February 2012 (UTC)