Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/February 13, 2024
The Annunciation is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling. It depicts the Annunciation, the archangel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, described in the Gospel of Luke. The iconography focuses on the Virgin's purity. Her swoon foreshadows the crucifixion of Jesus, and the painting emphasizes her role as mother, bride, and Queen of Heaven. The painting was executed in the 1480s. It was discovered in the early 19th century on an estate of the Radziwiłł family, in whose collection it might have been since the 16th century. It was purchased by the banker Philip Lehman in 1920, was transferred to canvas from its original oak panel sometime after 1928, and is today part of the Robert Lehman collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 1847 the art historian Gustav Friedrich Waagen described the panel as one of Memling's "finest and most original works". (Full article...)
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as i am aware that one of the fac nominators of this featured article prefers to keep comments out of the blurb itself, i thought it would be more appropriate for me to provide the reasoning for my edits here on the blurb talk page instead.
| The Annunciation → Annunciation (Memling) | ▶ | if a caption is not used, the title is generally set to be the same as that of the featured article |
| |border=yes | ▶ | used to make unusual crop less prominent for readers using a darker background |
| Crucifixion of Jesus → crucifixion of Jesus | ▶ | conform with mos:god and linked article, which does not consider "crucifixion of Jesus" a proper name |
as usual, anyone should feel free to revert any of my changes if they disagree with my reasoning. dying (talk) 01:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC)