Talk:Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa

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Did you know... that a painting by Antoine-Jean Gros (pictured) shows Napoleon Bonaparte touching the armpit of a plague victim in Jaffa?

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Caps for title[edit]

It seems to me that since the page name is the actual title of the painting, it should be capitalised according to Engilsh usage in titles: Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa. However, not being very techno-savvy I was intimidated by what I encountered when I tried to do it, so I'm limiting myself to suggesting it here. Awien (talk) 22:41, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The page fails to mention the word ‘Neoclassicism’ once; given that the painting and Jean-Gros himself helped define the Neoclassicism period, it is a mistake to omit such germane information. Bakebakes (talk) 16:57, 18 September 2020 (UTC)User: Bakebakes[reply]

There is a lack of citations in the article as well as missing information about the background of the painting and its discussion. Bceagle2121 (talk) 14:48, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It would be helpful to include more on the similarities between this painting and the Oath instead of just mentioning how they have similar compositions. jamesbutler2021 (talk) 19:42, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Almost no footnotes; implausible comments[edit]

Almost the entire material is from 2008 and comes from Neddyseagoon, who has stopped editing since 2017. He indicated only one actual source in the bibliography part, Jean Massin's Almanach du Premier Empire: du Neuf-Thermidor à Waterloo, Volume 36 of Portraits de l'histoire, Club français du livre, 1988 (which, btw, is weird, since Massin died in 1886). Different times. By now we need footnotes to accept the material. A clear indication that it's outdated and not very reliable: it presents the visit and the touching of the sick as history, which most certainly it was not. Also, mistaking the ornate Orientalist background for the actual Armenian monastery and poor old Jaffa of 1799 is a joke. The article needs thorough reworking, is compromised for now. Arminden (talk) 05:09, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]