Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rokeby Venus

Rokeby Venus

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Mar 2012 at 00:36:42 (UTC)

Original – The Rokeby Venus, a 17th century painting by Diego Velázquez. This oil on canvas work, which measures 122 cm × 177 cm (48 in × 69.7 in), depicts the Roman goddess of love Venus admiring herself in the mirror, held by her son Cupid.

True Original – Unedited

Reason

Beautiful, high resolution, notable painting. I've checked with this reference, and the colours seem accurate. (Bonus points: Featured article)

Articles in which this image appears

Rokeby Venus, Venus with a Mirror, and more

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Diego Velázquez, colours by Jan Arkesteijn

• Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:36, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
• Comment I haven't seen the actual painting to compare, but it looks bleached. Maybe some saturation is warranted. Brandmeister^talk 11:16, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

• I'll see if Google Art Project has the image. Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:01, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

• Support alt - the one labeled "True original" has better coloring. Clegs (talk) 08:58, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
• Support More concerned about which is correct. The virtual tour of the museum shows the painting with colours like the first image here. I'll support whichever is the more correct. Saffron Blaze (talk) 00:40, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
• Support alt I'm going to assume that the NPG took the care to get the colours right. JJ Harrison (talk) 22:42, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
• Support alt: colour detail is much better. Julia\^talk 22:24, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Promoted File:RokebyVenus.jpg --Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 10:42, 26 March 2012 (UTC)