Template:Did you know nominations/Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret
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The result was: promoted by Keilana (talk) 04:11, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
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Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret[edit]
Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret
- ... that Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret (pictured) illustrates the virtues of honour and chastity through the depiction of occultism, partial nudity, violent death and implied sexual torture?
- Reviewed: Ipswich Road, Colchester
- Comment: Ideally save this one until there's a picture slot free even if it means a delay, as this hook only makes sense if people can see that this is a painting we're talking about. – iridescent 18:36, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Created by Iridescent (talk). Self-nominated at 18:36, 7 August 2015 (UTC).
Length, age, neutrality, QPQ, all fine; No copyvio, close paraphrasing, evil copying etc. Picture is PD and just about discernible at DYK size. Hook would be OK, but I'm not sure that there is an "implied sexual torture"; sure, it is in the Faerie Queene, but the body of the article implies that Etty went out of his way to avoid that reference, and it is only in the lede that you state there is " strongly implied sexual torture". And nothing to do with DYK: Busirane = Techno Viking?. Belle (talk) 11:32, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Belle I've reworded that section to include a direct quote from a modern-day critic describing it as an image of "sadistic torture and occult sexual sorcery", which ought to do the trick. BRFA is a bit of a problematic piece to explain to modern audiences; it only makes sense to viewers familiar with Spenser, who has dropped spectacularly out of fashion over the last century but at the time was one of the three big names of English literature along with Milton and Shakespeare. (I believe that after this, Busirane went on to become Senior Designer of Wikipedia.) ‑ iridescent 14:49, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
And with that it is good to go; Prep-builder please use it with the pic; as iridescent points out, it really needs it for context (plus how many pictures of positive female role models do we show in DYK? Catch you later; I'm off to slaughter a wizard; come here, Harry Potter, this won't hurt a bit). Belle (talk) 15:18, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
