Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Vittore Carpaccio - Young Knight in a Landscape - Google Art Project.jpg

Young Knight in a Landscape
Voting period ends on 22 Feb 2015  at 02:35:42 (UTC)
 * Reason: Big file, Vittore Carpaccio is a classic Renaissance painter. The painting shows a young knight, surrounded by a series of symbols. The heron fighting with the hawk  in the sky might hint  a battle, an alternative theory is that this is a memorial portrait. In the left lower corner is a white ermine Kurzschwanzwiesel im Winterfell.JPG a scroll stating "I prefer to die rather than to incur dishonour" (malo mori quam foedari). The European legend had it that a white stoat would rather die before allowing its pure white coat to be besmirched, thus could be an allusion to the knight's pure character and moral - or maybe his fate.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Portrait of a Knight (Carpaccio), Vittore Carpaccio, Google Art Project
 * FP category for this image: Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator: Vittore Carpaccio


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 02:35, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - No brainer. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:12, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Another classic in ultrahigh resolution. Brandmeistertalk  11:51, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support That dog is straght out of mediæval manuscripts. The way its lips are drawn is very typical. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:30, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – no arguments from me on this one; excellent EV, terrific detail. SagaciousPhil  - Chat 10:43, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – Great image - SchroCat (talk) 14:22, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 04:03, 22 February 2015 (UTC)