Talk:Wenceslas Hollar

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[edit] Article name

I'd like to suggest that this article be moved back to "Wenceslaus Hollar," that being the name that Hollar is most widely known by, and that he used for most of his life, which he spent in England. A recent check on Google shows the form "Václav" (with or without diacritic) is used in only 2% of the mentions of Hollar, and these pages are all either WP mirrors or pages in the Czech or Slovak language. "Wencesla(u)s" is used 69% of the time (with 29% using "Wenzel"). According to WP naming conventions, "Wenceslaus" is the correct form, on several different grounds (e.g., "Only use the native spelling as an article title if it is more commonly used in English than the anglicized form"). PRiis 23:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

This is correct as per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names). I will move it. The Singing Badger 15:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hollar and Shakespeare' Globe

Hollar is particularly valuable to theatre historians because he made a "life" sketch of the second Globe theatre, sometime prior to 1644 when it was pulled down, and incorporated it into his magnificent London Panorama, dated 1647. Unlike all other panoramas, this was demonstrably from a single perspective (the bell tower of Southwark Cathedral) and measurements referencing existing structures, e.g. the Tower, the site of St Paul's, and the ruins of Winchester house, provide relatively accurate sitings of buildings such as the Globe.Jim Stinson 22:34, 24 July 2007 (UTC)