Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Golden Age of the Commonwealth

Golden Age of the Commonwealth


"The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Zenith of Its Power. The Polish Golden Age. Golden Liberty. The Election of 1573." This is a 19th-century painting by Jan Matejko. It appears in several articles, including "Free election," "History of Poland (1569–1795)," and "Szlachta." It's one of my favorite Matejkos — beautiful colors. I only wish we had better resolution, but I think this will do for our purposes.


 * Nominate and support. - Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 07:22, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Slight oppose. How many Matejko's featured pictures do we need? He is not Rembrandt, if you know what I mean. Talking about historical genre, I'd better nominate a Rubens or a Reynolds, something less brimming with nationalism and more valuable in the terms of art. --Ghirlandajo 13:06, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Just checked Image:DiegoVelazquez_SurrenderofBreda.jpg - still not featured. What a shame. --Ghirlandajo 13:12, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Because it's Polish history, it should not be a featured picture'? I am dissapointed with your logic.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 18:25, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Piotr, you see anti-Polish conspiracies everywhere. Please grow up. As I said above, we have enough featured pictures by Matejko. He is not Leonardo to have all of his artworks featured, especially when the greatest historical painting ever created - The Surrender of Breda - remains unheeded. --Ghirlandajo 19:07, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't understand what is your basis for judging we have enough 'Matejko's (btw, could you do me a favour and list how many are FPs?). I could unerstand an objection on the grounds 'it's ugly' or 'it's low technical quality', but I simply cannot follow your present line of thought. If you think we need more Rembrands or whatevers, find good quality versions and/or nominate our current ones. If you think the Breda pic is good - nominate it. I don't have time to do all by myself, you know.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 02:36, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I don't think that this is a serious objection (I don't see anything anti-Polish in it). Number of featured images by one author should not decide if another image of the same author should be featured (neither positively nor negatively). If you believe that a painting by Rembrandt, Rubens or Reynolds should be featured, do nominate it. Nikola 08:50, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. The painting, in addition to its artistic merit, illustrates a significant event in European history. Appleseed 02:13, 21 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Support — for the painting's historic importance, cultural value and, not least, for its relative unfamiliarity to much of the world. logologist 06:56, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Support — as per Logologist, with the accent on cultural value rather than unfamiliarity. Halibutt 09:45, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Support as per Logologist. To Halibutt: Free elections in 16th century were not that familiar :-) --Lysy (talk) 16:25, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Support per everyone. PS Ghirlandajo, please, let us know when you nominate the Velázquez. I for one will readily support the choice. --SylwiaS 15:34, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The reproduction doesn't seem to be very good (strange vertical dark streaks in the background left of the tent, a vertical line separating lighter blue from darker blue in the sky top right, the faces of the people in the foreground are just blurry). Unsure whether all these are reproduction artefacts or due to the quality of the original painting, but I suspect the former. Compare with this detail from the lower right corner! BTW, the source of the image (, linked at ) should be given on the image description page. Lupo 09:28, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * ( − ) Oppose Have to agree with Lupo --Fir0002 08:29, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Way to compressed, I need higher image quality.--Ewok Slayer 17:50, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose, too small, compression artifacts. A better scan/photo would get my support. --Janke | Talk 13:55, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * - real close, 6/4(5)/1 - Broken S 02:37, 4 December 2005 (UTC)