Talk:100 Great Paintings

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Translation of this article from the German Wiki was requested, so it was done. However, the German article is largely about the German series which derived from the BBC series, so it contains a lot of material which doesn't directly apply to the BBC series.

One interesting aspect is that the names of the paintings in the German article where (naturally) in German, which means they had to be back-translated into English. Since the translator does not have the English books and never saw the series, the names of the paintings are not guaranteed to be the same names used in the BBC series and books. As much as possible, the translator looked up the paintings in Wikipedia and used the names found there. It is hoped that some later Wikipedian(s) will kindly fix the names to match those used in the series in the future.

Scbarry (talk) 17:56, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

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--JeffGBot (talk) 21:19, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

In fact an archived version of this script is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20070930011611/http://www.wdr.de/tv/monitor/pdf/030918g_glosse.pdf

But in the meantime someone deleted the whole reference to this item of a current affairs programme in 2007, and perhaps it really is eight years later hardly of interest anymore. Thus no attempt has been made to again insert the reference, which is still included in the German original of this article.

Also of little relevance appears to be nowadays a single production from 2004, thus I removed this sentence rather than fixing the translation error (the production was about, not from Werner Tübke).

And moved to parodies has been the reference to the test card piece ORF did in 1994. It clearly was ironic, and it seems to be of some fame.

93.197.12.67 (talk) 11:45, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

220 Great Paintings?

It's not very clear on the page where the extra 120 paintings came from, and probably should be. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:02, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

The explanation was removed in October 2020, when chunks of the article were cut and moved to 1000 Meisterwerke. See also de:1000 Meisterwerke. In short, the BBC did 100 (20 topics with 5 paintings each, but which ones from this list I am not sure) and German broadcasters extended the original 100 Meisterwerke: I think they ended up with more than 220, but never approached 1000.

I see you have been busy adding 100 Great Paintings links to other articles. I hope you have a source which lists the original 100, because this is not it: I'm not even convinced that the first 100 works listed here are the original 100. Theramin (talk) 02:11, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Theramin, no source, was just going down the list and only realized there were more than 100 quite late in the distribution and quickly added this talk page question. So right now this article is almost useless as related to its title topic, the original 100, although the two books mentioned in the second paragraph would contain that original list and this link is the listed source of the 220-painting list. Randy Kryn (talk) 05:17, 23 February 2021 (UTC)