Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Canaletto - Bucentaur's return to the pier by the Palazzo Ducale - Google Art Project.jpg

Bucentaur's return to the pier by the Palazzo Ducale

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Original – The Return of the Bucentaur to the Molo on Ascension Day from circa 1730, by Canaletto. The Doge of Venice is about to throw a ring in the water on the painting.

Reason

Good scan, 30,000 × 20,857 pixels. Also a Canaletto painting. This painting shows one of the typical motifs of Canaletto. He is famous for his paintings of Venice (he really is). He is considered as one of the Venetian old master painters.

Articles in which this image appears

Canaletto, Bucentaur, Doge of Venice, Venice

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Canaletto

• Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 16:52, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support, quite an amazingly high resolution scan. — Cirt (talk) 02:05, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Obviously, high EV. Yann (talk) 13:23, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:47, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Nice view, good image and EV.--Godot13 (talk) 17:03, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Verrrry nice. Atsme^📞📧 22:45, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 14:26, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support high EV and resolution. sst✈^discuss 17:43, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Canaletto - Bucentaur's return to the pier by the Palazzo Ducale - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:53, 7 November 2015 (UTC)