User:Ham/Sandbox

I'm Ham and I edit mainly in the sorely underdeveloped field of visual art.

The article I've put the most into is probably National Gallery, London. I've had a long fascination with the place since seeing the director Neil MacGregor presenting a BBC documentary about it when I was 11 or thereabouts. Prior to discovering Wikipedia I had created a website on the Gallery here, and my work for NG-related topics on this site is really a continuation of that project, with the difference that people actually read Wikipedia! When I have more and better reference works at my disposal (i.e. after I move to London in October to study at the Courtauld Institute of Art) I hope to bring that article up to featured article status.

Another of my favourite places on earth is the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the article for which was the very first that I created (under an anonymous IP address). Possible future projects on the wiki include expansions of British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Louvre, Tate Modern et al, all of which deserve better articles than they have at the moment. The prospect of creating a brilliantly-designed userpage is even further off in the future, I'm afraid.

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cy Mae'r defnyddiwr 'ma yn siaradwr brodorol y Gymraeg.	en This user is a native speaker of English.	de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.
There are no statements of belief or opinion on this page. I'm here as an encyclopedist.	This user is a member of WikiProject Arts.	This user is a member of WikiProject London
C This user studies or studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art	This user is proud to be Welsh.	CF This user is from Cardiff, Europe's youngest capital city (after Tallinn, anyway)
This user is an art lover.	This user is interested in art history.	This user is interested in the Renaissance period.
This user is a bibliophile.	This user is interested in architecture.	This user enjoys bicycling.

Articles to which I've contributed in some significant way

[edit] Museums/Galleries

Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno • British Museum • Courtauld Institute of Art • Galleria Borghese • National Gallery, London • National Museum Cardiff • Uffizi

[edit] Works of art

Adoration of the Magi (Leonardo) • Bacchus and Ariadne • Bacchus (Michelangelo) • The Creation of Adam • The Flagellation (Piero della Francesca) • The Hay Wain • The History of the True Cross • Lady with an Ermine • Liberty Leading the People • Madonna of the Pinks • Pietà (Michelangelo) • The Rokeby Venus • Rondanini Pietà • The Virgin and Child with St. Anne • The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist

[edit] Other

William Boxall • Ascanio Condivi • Martin Davies • Gothic Revival architecture • Philip Hendy • Neil MacGregor • Philippe de Montebello • Nicholas Penny • Charles Saumarez Smith • Scala Regia