Talk:Venus Consoling Love

File:Venus Consoling Love, François Boucher, 1751.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Venus Consoling Love, François Boucher, 1751.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on February 14, 2018. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2018-02-14. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:54, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Picture of the day

Venus Consoling Love is a painting completed by François Boucher in 1751. It depicts a mythological scene, where Venus, the goddess of love, is about to disarm Cupid by taking away his arrows. Venus is depicted as a young, charming, and supple woman, in accordance with French Rococo's beauty ideals. Once owned by Madame de Pompadour, the chief mistress of Louis XV, the painting is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.Painting: François Boucher

Needs some grammar and sentence structure attention

I suppose it ought to wait until after it is no longer the POTD, but there are a number of things in this article that need correction, including grammatical errors, awkward phrasings, and opinions that lack the needed NPOV. One egregious example of the last is the sentence that announces "The painting was made with high technical skill." Since this is a famous classic painting, it seems that the skillful execution would go without saying (otherwise nobody'd care about it). If the skill level is high enough to remark upon, perhaps it needs a reference to a credible source as to the particularity of the excellence. Otherwise this sentence is superfluous. Cyberherbalist (talk) 02:39, 14 February 2018 (UTC)