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Domine, quo vadis[edit]

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Original – According to the apocrypha Acts of Peter Peter is fleeing from Rome to avoid crucifixion and along the road outside the city he meets Jesus, going in the opposite direction, carrying his cross. Peter asks Jesus "Quo vadis?", ("Master, where are you going?") to which he replies, "Romam vado iterum crucifigi" ("I am going to Rome to be crucified aga"). Peter returns to Rome. (1602)
Reason
Own article, good scan. A very rare representation of this subject in art, the Quo vadis, by Annibale Carracci (1560 –1609) who was a notable Italian Baroque painter, founder of the Bolognese School. This is one of his best known works. According to legend, this painting depicts a vision of Peter, about a meeting between Peter and Jesus. Also the book Henryk Sienkiewicz Quo Vadis: was awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize and a film has [been made]. The painting is in the National Gallery in London.

In Rome, where he moved in 1595, In his Domine, quo vadis? (ca. 1600) Christ appears as a powerful, seminude athlete. With the cross borne lightly on his shoulder, he strides forward past an amazed St. Peter and on toward us as if he were about to break out of the canvas. ... But there is also a preference for strong movement and a new sense of drama that belongs to the new age.

Articles in which this image appears
Domine quo vadis? (Annibale Carracci); Quo vadis?; Annibale Carracci; Apostle Peter; Alexander Day (artist)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Annibale Carracci
  • Brightness is a function of illumination, and therefore arbitrary. We could have an argument about reflectivity, but I don't think it will get us anywhere. Our job is to present the content in an encyclopaedic way, and that means choosing an exposure that will allow most people (i.e. the largest possible number of end devices) to discern reasonable detail of the painting. Increasing exposure does not falsify the painting. It simply turns the lights up (if an analogy is needed). Samsara 15:44, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Why does its coming from a museum automatically make it a good scan? Samsara 16:26, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • And what benchmark do you suggest using? The National Gallery has the painting. They can see it every day. They would presumably know if the scan is too dark or not. Anyways, at full size the painting looks absolutely fine. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:40, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, pity that this nomination is going unnoticed, in spite of being posted for several days as needing feedback. Because it is a great artwork, and it became to be of great symbolic value. Looks like only we in Europe realize that this motive and the novel [1] Henryk Sienkiewicz Quo Vadis was written as drawing historical parallels between the occupied Poland and the occupied Polish people of his time and Nero's time. This was later applied to the communism. Asking Quo Vadis sometimes in an occupied country meant - whispering Where are we heading in this country? Are we on the right way? Shall we turn and go in the opposite direction? Were people got jailed it they asked these questions loud. All that in a country where this was not allowed. Yes it was symbolic, but a lot was written and said in a symbolic way in those times. It MEANT more than those words Peter said, Quo Vadis - it meant - think, maybe we are going in the wrong direction. And also combined with the fact that in East-Germany and Poland the religion was also playing a certain part in the resistance movement against occupation. But I guess one has to live in Europe to understand it, Americans probably don't get that instantly. Quo Vadis was a symbol of free thinking, free will and the right to question in a time none of this was allowed - just disguised in a religious question... Hafspajen (talk) 18:48, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Thank you, Hafspajen, for explaining all that. I had not known about the importance or meaning of the question before. I also agree that the colors of the painting might have gotten darker over the centuries, but some of the colors are quite strong even now. I'm wondering if the painting might have been painted in slightly dark tones because it was a vision, perhaps in a dream, or even a meeting on a road in the evening. CorinneSD (talk) 22:06, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted ---The Herald the joy of the LORDmy strength 01:48, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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