User:Maddox337/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
St. Augustine in His Study (Carpaccio)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I was excited to receive this article because I had recently read the stories of St. Augustine and St. Jerome written in The Golden Legend in an english class, and the two saints are described to be present in the St. Augustine in His Study painting. This painting deserves to be written a highly rated article because it illustrates these two saints and their story, illuminating what people thought about his at the time the painting was commissioned and giving people who want a religious visual of the saints today more insight. My preliminary impression of the article was it's short length, shortage of background information, lack of sources and citations, small lead section, and large section that solely describe the appearance of the painting. If applicable, the content should also include an inclusive history of any of the painting's matter, such as an object's forien origin. For example, images provided at the bottom of the article work to point out and name certain aspects of the painting, but more information could be given and organized to speak to the history of these items and why they are included in the painting.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The article "St. Augustine in His Study (Carpaccio) needs a lot of work. The lead section is solely one sentence, which does not provide a concise and clear summary of the article topic. The first sentence should describe the painting briefly, as well as state the artist and the commissioner. A description of the article's sections should also be added to the lead, although more sections need to be added to the entirety of the article. The content of the article is skim, only including a brief amount of information about the painter and the commissioner and an overview description of the painting's contents. The information provided in the history section or the description section does not have any sources cited, meaning an entire rewrite of the article is necessary with sources cited in order to correctly fact check the work. Content that could be added includes the story of st. Augustine and his relation to St. Jerome, information about the commissioner and location of the painting, a history of the artist, a deeper description of the medium that the painting was on, and a sourced description of the painting. This article has been rated as a start class article, and the talk page is mostly bare. I would consider this article poorly-developed, as a lot of relevant information is missing and none of the current information is sourced.