Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Александр Андреевич Иванов - Явление Христа народу (Явление Мессии) - Google Art Project.jpg

20 years of work
Voting period ends on 21 Feb 2015  at 23:28:02 (UTC)
 * Reason:Giant picture, giant file. (30,000 × 20,922 pixels) The artist spent 20 years to paint this, it is based on about 300 preparatory sketches and studies, and many of which are gems in themselves and are considered by art historians as masterpieces in their own right. This painting :  "... is a beautiful painting, full of colour and meticulous detail. In 1858, Alexander Ivanov went with his beloved painting to St Petersburg where it was exhibited. Its lukewarm reception must have been heartbreaking for Ivanov.  He died a few months later of cholera aged 52 not knowing that some years after his death his work of art would be hailed, by the likes of Ilya Repin, the most celebrated Russian painter of his day, as: 'the greatest work in the whole world, by a genius born in Russia'."
 * Articles in which this image appears:The Appearance of Christ Before the People,   Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Google Art Project
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator: Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 23:28, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Again, a no brainer. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:12, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Good to have this in such resolution, especially since the painting is 540×750 cm. Brandmeistertalk  11:55, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Absurd resolution, but very good. Is there anyway to make a link under "Other resolutions" that is perhaps 10% of the size? They presently jump from something like 1% -> 100% with nothing in between. Mattximus (talk) 00:18, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - you could maybe click on preview 1,280 × 893 pixels, under the painting, preview choices. Hafspajen (talk) 03:25, 14 February 2015 (UTC).


 * Support But why does one fellow have a strangely greenish face? I don't get the symbolism. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Fainting of happiness. Hafspajen (talk) 14:46, 16 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Support – Very nice - SchroCat (talk) 14:22, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - CorinneSD (talk) 17:18, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 23:29, 21 February 2015 (UTC)