Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Virgin of the Rocks – da Vinci

Second time lucky for the Virgin

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Original – The Virgin of the Rocks (about 1491/2–99 and 1506–08); This is the second version of this piece undertaken by da Vinci, and was a commission from the Milanese Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception for their oratory; this was to be the central panel of three above a new altar. The first version completed (now in the Louvre) never reached its intended destination (multiple theories exist as to why not), and so da Vinci produced this second, which was installed in the chapel in August 1508.

Reason

An excellent image of a very well-known picture by one of the most famous artists.

Articles in which this image appears

Virgin of the Rocks, Themes in Italian Renaissance painting, Leonardo da Vinci

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Leonardo da Vinci

• Support as nominator – SchroCat (talk) 09:03, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Brilliant. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:18, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
  • I'm striking my support. There's obviously been an edit from the NatGat's scan, and (in the upload history) involvement from an editor whose been PNGed and I don't want to be involved with. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:12, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support Absolutely. APK whisper in my ear 12:43, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Very nice.-Jobas (talk) 19:18, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

• I am not sure, this one is rather bluish - (?) but I really like this one. Honestly I don't know. This work has been a puzzle for me. I would like to know if anyone have been in the Louvre and have seen it. Hafspajen (talk) 18:17, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

• We don't have a good copy of the Louvre one, I think. I've seen the two pictures side-by-side and the differences between them are quite marked - the poses are different as are the colours. I don't know whether the transfer of the French one from wood to canvas affected the colours, but they do look very different! - SchroCat (talk) 18:50, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

• Support - it looks good enough at close up. Hafspajen (talk) 20:27, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
• Support Leonardo at his best. Brandmeister^talk 21:11, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
• Support - sharp and crisp. talk→ WPPilot  16:26, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Leonardo da Vinci Virgin of the Rocks (National Gallery London).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:10, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

• Added it to the Artwork category, as there is an article about the painting. --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:10, 9 February 2015 (UTC)