Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Domine, quo vadis.jpg

Domine, quo vadis
Voting period ends on 28 Mar 2015  at 00:28:47 (UTC)
 * Reason: Own article, good scan. A very rare representation of this subject in art, the Quo vadis, by Annibale Carracci (1560 –1609) who was a notable Italian Baroque painter,  founder of the Bolognese School. This is one of his best known works.  According to legend, this painting depicts a vision of Peter, about a meeting between Peter and Jesus. Also  the book Henryk Sienkiewicz Quo Vadis:  was awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize and a film has [been made].  The painting is in the  National Gallery in London. "In Rome, where he moved in 1595, In his Domine, quo vadis? (ca. 1600) Christ appears as a powerful, seminude athlete. With the cross borne lightly on his shoulder, he strides forward past an amazed St. Peter and on toward us as if he were about to break out of the canvas. ...  But there is also a preference for strong movement and a new sense of drama that belongs to the new age."
 * Articles in which this image appears:Domine quo vadis? (Annibale Carracci); Quo vadis?; Annibale Carracci; Apostle Peter; Alexander Day (artist)
 * FP category for this image: Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator: Annibale Carracci
 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 00:28, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Lovely. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:23, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Very nice scan of interesting artwork; good EV. SagaciousPhil  - Chat 14:06, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose Too dark. Samsara 17:55, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * This scan is from National Gallery in London. Also paintings tend to go slightly dark with time, this was painted 400 years ago. Also look at Christ forearm pointing towards you. It has a light on it that is clear and bright. Many Baroque paintings were painted in chiaroscuro. Hafspajen (talk) 20:39, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Brightness is a function of illumination, and therefore arbitrary. We could have an argument about reflectivity, but I don't think it will get us anywhere. Our job is to present the content in an encyclopaedic way, and that means choosing an exposure that will allow most people (i.e. the largest possible number of end devices) to discern reasonable detail of the painting. Increasing exposure does not falsify the painting. It simply turns the lights up (if an analogy is needed). Samsara 15:44, 25 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment - This is a painting not a photo. It is a masterwork, and scan is good enough if comes directly from the National Gallery in London. Hafspajen (talk) 04:26, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Why does its coming from a museum automatically make it a good scan? Samsara 16:26, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * And what benchmark do you suggest using? The National Gallery has the painting. They can see it every day. They would presumably know if the scan is too dark or not. Anyways, at full size the painting looks absolutely fine. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:40, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, pity that this nomination is going unnoticed, in spite of being posted for several days as needing feedback. Because it is a great artwork, and it became to be of great symbolic value. Looks like only we in Europe realize that this motive and the novel Henryk Sienkiewicz Quo Vadis was written as drawing historical parallels between the occupied Poland and the occupied Polish people of his time and Nero's time. This was later  applied to the communism. Asking Quo Vadis sometimes in an occupied country meant - whispering Where are we heading in this country? Are we on the right way? Shall we turn and go in the opposite direction?  Were people got jailed it they asked these questions loud. All that in a country where this was not allowed. Yes it was symbolic, but a lot was written and said in a symbolic way in those times. It MEANT  more than those words Peter said, Quo Vadis - it meant - think, maybe we are going in the wrong direction. And also combined with the fact that in East-Germany and Poland the religion was also playing a certain part in the resistance movement against occupation. But I guess one has to live in Europe to understand it, Americans probably don't get that instantly.  Quo Vadis was a symbol of free thinking, free will and the right to question in a time none of this was allowed - just disguised in a religious question... Hafspajen (talk) 18:48, 27 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Support Thank you, Hafspajen, for explaining all that. I had not known about the importance or meaning of the question before. I also agree that the colors of the painting might have gotten darker over the centuries, but some of the colors are quite strong even now. I'm wondering if the painting might have been painted in slightly dark tones because it was a vision, perhaps in a dream, or even a meeting on a road in the evening. CorinneSD (talk) 22:06, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

---The Herald the joy of the LORD my strength 01:48, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 4 support, 1 oppose.. No consensus -The Herald the joy of the LORD my strength  01:48, 28 March 2015 (UTC)