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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 02:56, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Ludwig II (sculpture)

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Ludwig II by Elisabet Ney
Ludwig II by Elisabet Ney
  • ... that some historians believe Elisabet Ney's full-length statue (pictured) of "Mad King Ludwig" of Bavaria was created as part of a Prussian scheme to unify Germany? Source: "Later historians ... have either speculated or bluntly stated ... that Elisabet Ney ... was also useful as a political agent. ... Ney's job, [they] reason, was somehow to ingratiate herself with Ludwig and influence him to submit Bavaria ... to Hohenzollern domination." (Cutrer, Emily Fourmy (2016). The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney. pp. 64–65.)

Created by Bryanrutherford0 (talk). Self-nominated at 15:50, 10 January 2018 (UTC).

  • Article was created within 7 days of nomination. Article hasn't been ITN. Article is long enough (3459 characters according to DYK checker). Article does not contain copyvio, or close paraphrasing of the sources I have been able to read (only 1 reference available to check). Hook is short enough, and is suitably hooky (I chose to QPQ review this because the hook intrigued me). The two images in the article are CC BY-SA 4.0 licensed, and the hook image appears in the article. Hook image has rollover text. Picture is relevant, as it is of the statue that the article is about. Image is clear but it is bigger than 100 x 100. I checked if the image was still clear at 100 x 100 and it was. Red Fiona (talk) 23:24, 15 January 2018 (UTC)