Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Sir Peter Paul Rubens - Daniel in the Lions' Den - Google Art Project.jpg

Daniel in the Lions' Den
Voting period ends on 16 Sep 2014  at 21:10:17 (UTC)


 * Reason: Rubens, Dutch painter, (1577 – 1640) is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all times. This is a fairly  early work, depicting the profet Daniel in the lion's den, painted 1615. The prophet Daniel is thrown into the den of the lions by the Persian king, Darius, due to the persian noblemen and ministers conspirations. But the lions didn't attacked the prophet, because the Lord send his angel to close the lions gap: My God hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before Him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt, as Daniel said. Daniel appears in the middle of eight lions. The lions are well executed, they are standing, lying or sittig in different positions around the prophet; and they reflect different moods, from indifferent to the fierce, hungry and irritable. Have in mind that we can find   great amounts of hopeless lion depictions in the art history - like this, for example ->File:Albrecht Altdorfer 003.jpg ; - File:Albrecht Dürer 012.jpg; - File:Adam Elsheimer - Der heilige Hieronymus in der Wildnis.jpg, - File:Hans Schäufelein Der Heilige Hieronymus.JPG- and File:Teniers the Younger Daniel.jpg...


 * Articles in which this image appears: Daniel in the lions' den, Daniel


 * FP category for this image:Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Sir Peter Paul Rubens


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 21:10, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Nice find. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:06, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Looks good to me. Samsara (FA • FP) 09:48, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Good enough, saw the reproduction before in a Rubens album. Brandmeistertalk  11:22, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Support  SagaciousPhil   -  Chat  13:47, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 21:24, 16 September 2014 (UTC)