Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Antonio de Pereda - El sueño del caballero - Google Art Project.jpg

"Vanitatum vanitas" or "The Knight's Dream"
Voting period ends on 13 Sep 2014  at 09:45:39 (UTC)
 * Reason:Well done painting, high technical skills, an interesting and striking image. Antonio de Pereda comes from a talented and interesting artist family, his father, mother and two brothers were all painters.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Antonio de Pereda, Dream
 * FP category for this image:Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Antonio de Pereda y Salgado


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 09:45, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Question - How big's the painting? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:47, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Height: 217 cm (85.4 in). Width: 152 cm (59.8 in). Hafspajen (talk) 15:06, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 2.1 by 1.5 m... that's huge. I don't quite think this scan's got the resolution for such a large painting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:09, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * All I have...that's all Google Art Project gave. Hafspajen (talk) 15:26, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I know... shame, really. It's a nice painting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:50, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * You can make out all the details can't you (so you can't see all the cracks in the paint, that's not going to make anybody but an out-of-work restorer cry is it?). What resolution would it need to be? Belle (talk) 08:29, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I know that this is over the bare minimum (1.5k * 1.5k), but our previous art scans have set a higher bar for resolution. This one is 3,535 × 2,501, which (using Haffy' measurements) is about 1.5 pixels per mm. His other current nomination has almost 3 pixels per mm. I wouldn't insist on that much, but for a scan like this at least 2 pixels per mm might be worth having. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:09, 4 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm tempted to support (mostly because the angel is pointing out Eternepunk's Chocolate Eating Accident; I know Latin; look at the banner and tell me I'm wrong) but I'm waiting on a reply to my resolution query first. Belle (talk) 08:29, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Aeterne pungit, cito volat et occidit. - "Eternally it stings, swiftly it flies and it kills." (OR Everlasting it stings, quickly it flies and it falls down) - [ http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/p/pereda/allegor.html info]. Yes, I thought myself the details were quite visible, otherwise I would not nom it... Hafspajen (talk) 15:48, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I prefer my translation; I'm imagining he joined Weight Watchers and she's turned up for the weigh in. I support this for FP, because the details are quite clear and if we ever get a humongous resolution copy that shows the tiny citizens of the cities that have sprung up in the cracks in the paint we can replace it. has just got used to being spoiled. Belle (talk) 17:14, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 09:47, 13 September 2014 (UTC)