Talk:Old Master

message: I nominate this entry to be trimmed substantially, the list should be shorn. There is perhaps a sense that post-Napoleonic sensibilities were different, and that grand manner is a style of painting whose substance declined in Italy when old regimes were toppled or transiently shelved by around the end of the 19th century: for example, republican Venice, Medici Florence, and transiently papal Rome. However academicism continued (continues) to live on. Christie's and Sotheby's categories have the academic substance of Sunday newspaper coupon books.CARAVAGGISTI 12:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In English please.  I have no idea what was transiently toppled by around the end of the 19th century.   As the article says (my para I think) the term has been abandoned by academic art historians (and, as it does not say, very largely by journalists), and the auction houses usefully define how the art trade now uses it.  I see no harm in a greatest hits list, although it predates my contribution. Otherwise the article will be a very short stub leading people nowhere much.  The list needs watching - I have just snipped Caracciolo or however he is spelt - who else would you nominate?    Johnbod 02:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now added to it somewhat - I hope this makes it clearer that if anything the end-date should be pushed back not forwards. I see on reflection you (presumably) meant "by the end of the 18th century" above.  I don't think the term relates to the "grand manner" or academic painting; it appears to have come into common use to describe Dutch Golden Age painting, especially genre scenes. Johnbod 13:18, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Many small states in northern Italy were forged into larger ones. Genoa and some others came to Piedmont. Tuscany, Venice and Milan to Austria. Larger states were stronger in the eyes of the Congress. They made a similar decision in the Low Countries. 81.68.255.36 (talk) 18:49, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

text: Thanks for the offer, but since the 20 artists in the list would have probably been included in any list compiled since about 1850, I don't share your pessimism in this respect. Johnbod 14:56, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm late to this party, but it's hard to find fault with the list. If I can provide some references, I will. JNW 04:14, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: I nominate this entry to be trimmed substantially, the list should be shorn (2007)

message: Gainsborough?...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.229.155 (talk) 19:20, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gainsborough 

message: What's with the Dutch vs Flemish in the list section? Is the ("nationality") behind the names supposed to reflect the area where the Old Masters had made most of their paintings? Both the Flemish artists in the list were not born in Flanders..so, please explain. 81.68.255.36 (talk) 18:40, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There are more than two, though Rubens & Van Dyck are in the section above for no very good reason, and there should be more. In English Flemish is the term, rightly or wrongly, for all the Southern/Spanish Netherlands, and sometimes more. We don't care if its in the County of Flanders, I'm afraid - far too complicated. Johnbod (talk) 02:32, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dutch vs Flemish 

message: My reversion of these edits] by User:Informed analysis have been reverted by him (he also wants to rename High Renaissance and has had an undiscussed move of it reverted by an admin already).  The problems are:
#He starts the High Renaissance too early - a number of artists should be Early Renaissance, not High High Renaissance - most of the first bunch in the High Renaissance group.
#I think these sections and labels are probably undesirable anyway.  A high proportion of artists spanned two periods during their careers, which this scheme does not allow for. 
#It may be time to remove of float off the whole list, which is ever-growing, and not always that well-selected.
He is new to editing on art, & doing so rather too boldly (this for example) on various articles. 
What do other people think? Johnbod (talk) 02:40, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It sounds as if you're using Wikipedia as a source, which is not a good idea. Many artists do not fit entirely into a single category—e.g., Michelangelo is Mannerist in his late works. Paragraphs of text can explain such cases better than a list, where there is a danger of false precision. (And FWIW, the lead section of Italian Renaissance painting places Botticelli in the Early Renaissance.) Ewulp (talk) 04:27, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

text: Not everyone active in the 1490s, or even 1510s, was working in a HR style - far from it. The first seven you list as HR would usually, except for Leonardo, be thought of as ER, except perhaps right at the end. Likewise Carpaccio in the Venetian section is ER, where Lotto is more HR than Mannerist. Also Francesco di Giorgio Martini is more ER than HR.  Frankly you are at art history 101 level (or below), and rashly rewriting stuff by people who know an awful lot more about the subject than you do. So far your edits overall are doing about as much harm as good. Johnbod (talk) 18:50, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, yes I was mixing up yours with earlier edits, though you did divide the Venetians and Siennese. I'll look at the other article. Johnbod (talk) 00:23, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Right, I'm not very happy with starting the HR about 1475, and if this date is used, it only applies to a (very) few artists and works. Nearly all my books are packed up at the moment or I'd tackle it. This 2012 book looks good - the introductory essay quotes a 2010 Wikipedia version of the HR article (gulp - since changed referencing that book); most sources quoted seem to start with Leonardo in the 1490s, or even later. Johnbod (talk) 01:23, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits 

message: Given that basically every other major artist of roughly their generation seems to be on this list, should they be here? (I note specifically Lawrence, Ingres, Gros, Friedrich, Géricault, and Delacroix). It seems particularly weird to consider Delacroix an Old Master, but not Turner and Constable. john k (talk) 02:01, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Frankly these lists are a pain in the arse, and not needed, but people keep adding them. Myself, I'd add them & remove Géricault and Delacroix. You have to draw the line somewhere. Johnbod (talk) 02:29, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Delacroix as the last doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I'll add them, though. john k (talk) 00:47, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turner and Constable