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Gerard van Honthorst, an Uncommon card
Gerard "Gerrit" van Honthorst was a Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the Italian nickname Gherardo delle Notti.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 119
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 33,000
Power 119 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Gerard van Honthorst quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gerard van Honthorst card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Following his return to the ______ he became a leading portrait painter.
Answer
Netherlands. Following his return to the Netherlands he became a leading portrait painter. From the Gerard van Honthorst article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Victor Feldman. Victor Feldman 74 · Vasco Rossi 71 · Moodymann 67 · Gerard van Honthorst 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.
- Early in his career he visited Rome, where he had great success painting in a style influenced by Caravaggio.
- Following his return to the Netherlands he became a leading portrait painter.
- Van Honthorst's contemporaries included Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen and Dirck van Baburen.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gerard van Honthorst article was read about 33,000 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 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Gerard van Honthorst
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gerard van Honthorst (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Pieter de Jode II / After Gerard van Honthorst / Joannes Meyssens, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
