User:Rachelesanders/artievalsandbox

Article Evaluation
I chose the Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs.

Everything seems to be pretty relevant. It describes the age, material and context of the sculpture, as well as its current versus original locations. It describes the subject matter, depictions of Roman rules known as Tetrarchs. The article also describes style-more geometric than idealistic. This suggests that the porphyry was cut rather than modeled or chiseled. It also attempts to explain the apparent decrease in idealistic quality after the classical work of the Greeks. The article also examines the sculpture structurally and extrapolates its individual history by observing damage to the sculpture. Nothing distracted me; it all seemed relevant and on-topic.I didn't notice any glaring bias in this article. It seems to accurately present the history and cultural context of this work.Viewpoints seem to be balanced well. For example, in the Style section, multiple differing sources are cited and covered well, elaborated on pretty equally.All but one of the citation links work. that being said, it was the second link on the list, which hurts credibility a little bit for me. However, the accessible sources do support the article's claims.Facts are cited well. Sources seem to be reliable and unbiased, as well as accurate, not out of date. If any more information was to be added, maybe some more information about Egyptian sculpture might help as a comparison.On the Talk page, someone has listed their sources for their Wikipedia project. There are no conversations about how to represent the topic.The article is within the scope of the WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome and the WikiProject Visual arts. The article is rated start-class on the project's quality scale.We have not yet discussed this article in class, but it didn't differ too much from when I studied it before.I plan to elaborate on Roman stylistic portraiture, using Roman history information, as well as art across the Roman Empire.

A better Table of Contents for this page might be: Subject, Style/Influences, and History.