Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Handel

Handel

 * Reason:I don't think there's any doubt Handel is an important composer, nor that this is a very good painting of him.
 * Articles this image appears in:Used in Template:Handel, and thus the lead image for pretty much all Handel-related works, which is maybe 70 articles. (The list on the image page may take a little time to populate, as the template formerly used a lower-res copy of the same image, which I just switched over)
 * Creator:Balthasar Denner


 * Support as nominator By the way, I hope you'll forgive me if I suggest a couple works collected, prepared, or created by others today - we have a lot of fantastic work that is as yet uncelebrated, and a lot of important subjects with a strong candidate for an FP that just need nominated. --Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 05:34, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: The face looks very cracked- is that not something that would normally be fixed in a restoration, or does that "cross the line" with regards to changing the original image? J Milburn (talk) 12:08, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd say that does cross the line, and further, I'm not even sure that it'd be possible to fix the crazing with good effect at this resolution since brush strokes and changing paint colours are really quite subtle, so you need a lot more pixels to work with to get it right. I also suspect that it wouldn't work very well even then, and would change too many things with clear artistic intent. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 12:29, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak support. Nothing amazing, but a decent image that adds a lot to the article. J Milburn (talk) 14:47, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Neutral "Cracked" face detracts somewhat from image quality, otherwise a very nice image.  tempo di valse  [☎]  00:51, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

No quorum --~   ωαdεstεr 16  «talkstalk» 17:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC)