Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> >> By in my first few clicks on Jimmy's deletion log I instantly found >> several hundred year old works of art by artists who have articles in >> almost every major language Wikipedia. >> >> >> > > I confess I found a certain poignancy in reading the article > on one of the victims. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adolphe_Bouguereau > > "Bouguereaus works were eagerly bought by > American millionaires who considered him the most > important French artist of that time. But after 1920, > Bouguereau fell into disrepute, due in part to changing > tastes and partly to his staunch opposition to the > Impressionists who were finally gaining acceptance. > *For decades following, his name was not even > mentioned in encyclopedias.*" > > (emphasis mine) > > How sad. > > > Yours, > > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > > >
Apologies for replying to my own message, but that was a false alarm. In this case the link was broken because a better quality image had been uploaded with a different name, apparently. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
