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Bernard Palissy, a Common card
Bernard Palissy was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 130
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 130 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Bernard Palissy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Bernard Palissy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Imitations and adaptations of his style continued to be made in France until roughly ____, and then revived considerably in the 19th century.
Answer
1800s. Imitations and adaptations of his style continued to be made in France until roughly 1800, and then revived considerably in the 19th century. From the Bernard Palissy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
David Carney. David Carney 73 · Rosi Sexton 70 · Traian Vuia 66 · Bernard Palissy 63 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known for his so-called "rusticware", typically highly decorated large oval platters featuring small animals in relief among vegetation, the animals apparently often being moulded from casts taken of dead specimens.
- It is often difficult to distinguish examples from Palissy's own workshop and those of a number of "followers" who rapidly adopted his style.
- Imitations and adaptations of his style continued to be made in France until roughly 1800, and then revived considerably in the 19th century.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bernard Palissy article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 67: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Bernard Palissy
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Bernard Palissy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bernard Palissy (artist). Carle Delange et C. Borneman (lithographers)., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
