User:Srmcg/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Green Caesar

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
It's a very recognizable sculpture of one of the most famous figures in Roman history, but the article on the piece is rather short and non-specific.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is only one sentence, but it gives an overview of the article's three other sections. The information in the article is all relevant, but the "Style" section seems to take on a slightly subjective tone. It describes what "the viewer" sees and their interpretation of it, specifically their impression of Roman values like gravitas and severitas. I think the article would benefit from changing this section to be about what Roman sculptors typically intended their works to project, based on any writing or documentation there may be of their thought process. There would probably little content required to change in the "Style" section after reframing it this way, but it would become more objective and rooted in historical fact, rather than visual analysis.

Still, the article seems neutral as it relies heavily on describing the academic consensus about where, by whom, and why the sculpture was made. But without citations, it's unclear whether to prefer the opinion of "many archaeologists" versus "the majority."

There are three books cited as sources, but none of them have links to access them further. There are no in-text citations or hyperlinks beyond other Wikipedia pages, making it unclear where the evidence for facts in the article come from.

Considering the lack of precise grounding of the sculpture, which forces art historians to compare it to other pieces made around the same time, the article would probably benefit from more images. The only picture included is of the Green Caesar, but if it "belongs to a group of late Republican portraits" and the only portraits of Caesar made during his lifetime are on Roman coins, then images of those two other bodies of works would be beneficial for comparison of them.