Talk:Benedetto Pistrucci

Benedetto Pistrucci is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on January 30, 2022.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
August 9, 2017	Featured article candidate	Promoted

Biography: Arts and Entertainment

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the arts and entertainment work group (assessed as Low-importance).

Numismatics: British currency Mid‑importance

	Numismatics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Numismatics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of numismatics and currencies on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.NumismaticsWikipedia:WikiProject NumismaticsTemplate:WikiProject Numismaticsnumismatic articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the British currency task force (assessed as Low-importance).

Visual arts

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Visual arts, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of visual arts on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Visual artsWikipedia:WikiProject Visual artsTemplate:WikiProject Visual artsvisual arts articles

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Benedetto Pistrucci. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221031/http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/egallery/maker.asp?maker=12428 to http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/egallery/maker.asp?maker=12428

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 11:51, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2017 church service and plaque, wax models[edit]

Regarding this information, about the instalation of a plaque at the church in Virginia Water, removed due to the lack of a source, there was something about it in The Times last year, here.

The newly reopened Museum of the Mint in Rome (the Museo della Zecca di Roma) appears to have a display of wax sculptures by Pistrucci, including models of his "St George and the Dragon" design, here. 31.74.241.93 (talk) 14:04, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I will look into how best to include any relevant information from those in the articles.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:44, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Should have mentioned that the Rome Mint Museum also has some of Pistrucci's original wax models of his Waterloo Medal, including the "definitive" models of each face.[1] And there are electrotype examples at the British Museum, one bronze and one silver.[2][3] (The BM catalogue entries mention some copies made in 1967.) And several examples at the Metropolitan Museum, in bronze, lead, and a modern one in gold.[4][5][6] 31.74.123.41 (talk) 22:18, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a couple of those as external links, in this and the Waterloo Medal articles. Thank you. If you want to add back the Virginia Water information, I have no objection.--Wehwalt (talk) 00:01, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'll leave that to someone who knows how to weave it in properly. The Rome Mint Museum pages argue that Pistrucci's "Greek style" St George and the Dragon was influenced by the Elgin Marbles, which had themselves only recently arrived in London; and that the composition of the Waterloo Medal was based on the Shield of Achilles. 31.74.123.41 (talk) 12:20, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]