Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Flammarion.jpg

Flammarion Woodcut

Reason: Widely known piece of art, high quality image
Proposed caption: The Flammarion Woodcut is an enigmatic woodcut by an unknown artist. The woodcut depicts a man peering through the Earth's atmosphere as if it were a curtain to look at the inner workings of the universe.
Articles this image appears in: Flammarion woodcut, Camille Flammarion, Flat Earth
Creator: cLeinad-Z

Support as nominator -- þħɥʂıɕıʄʈ^ʝɘɖı 22:41, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional support The caption needs a lot more work, since most of the interest of this image is in the history and usage: The image itself is actually rather confusing and odd. Vanished user ^talk 02:53, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional support. Crop out the French-language caption (there is an alternate version so cropped on the image page), and improve the Wikipedia caption per Vanished user. Spikebrennan 15:00, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I don't see any reason to remove the caption - it's not like it's a great deal of French, and it's important context, as it evidently is one of the things wrong with a 16th century attribution: It's a reference to Voltaire. Vanished user ^talk 15:38, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Is the top edge tilted like that in the original? vlad§inger ^tlk 01:44, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'd be willing to believe it was: Parallell lines do not seem to be among very many engravers' strengths. That said, this is excessively unparallel. Presuming that's not a really hideous artefact of reproduction, it's yet another reason why the caption is so important: The image itself is actually only really about average quality or so, given the generally high level of engraving technique. Intentionally so, no doubt, as it's meant to impersonate an average engraving of a few centuries older, but even still... Vanished user ^talk 08:53, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
(My) Translation: "A missionary from the Middle Ages claims he found the spot where the sky and the Earth met..." NauticaShad e s 02:15, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, I Support. NauticaShad e s 16:35, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Support. The caption doesn't deal enough with the content of the image itself. The translated caption should also be in the Wikipedia caption. I agree with Vanished user that the original caption should not be cropped out.--ragesoss 20:11, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Flammarion.jpg. There's plenty of caption on the image page. MER-C 09:01, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]