Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Venus and Anchises

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Reason: A typical 19th-century English painting and an epic classical work
Articles in which this image appears: William Blake Richmond, Anchises and Cultural depictions of lions
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: William Blake Richmond

Comment - The creator is William Blake Richmond, not the uploader. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:23, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK, just learning to make noms. Hafspajen (talk) 09:37, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Looks like it is cut off at the top - I don't think the artist would have framed it so tight. --Janke | Talk 09:41, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

'No, it is correct, see here. 'Venus and Anchises', by Sir William Blake Richmond (1842 - 1921), description from the National Museums Liverpool. Also the width of the painting is 2,965 mm (116.73 in), that is quite big for a painting. Hafspajen (talk) 09:45, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How do we know that image is not clipped? The composition looks so unbalanced that I think it must be... I mean, what artist would paint a head touching the edge of the canvas? --Janke | Talk 09:14, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I understand what you mean, but the picture is very large, and if you look carefully in the larger version, it does not touching the edge of the canvas. It is under probably like an inch. The arm is out. Maybe while cropping away the frame it might have took of just slightly a little more that necessary. But the picture is not crippled. I think illustrates a point, he is in the shadow. He is a mortal. She is a godess. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hafspajen (talk • contribs) 02:44, 24 May 2014‎

It's one of those things that looks different in person: It's an absolutely massive painting, and the composition works in that context - He's coming out of the shadows, entering from outside the frame. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:25, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support — The eternal feminine, with plenty of pixels. Sca (talk) 13:54, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - By my count this is give or take 1.5 pixels per millimetre of painting. That's enough for me. Quality of the scan is good too. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:31, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Sca. Brandmeister^talk 09:14, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oh, hey, neat. I saw this at an Edinburgh exhibit earlier this month. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:18, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:William Blake Richmond - Venus and Anchises - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:11, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]