Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/John in the Wilderness

John in the Wilderness
Voting period ends on 27 Oct 2015  at 18:59:41 (UTC)
 * Reason:At least seven of the 80 or so surviving paintings by Caravaggio (1571-1610) are of St. John the Baptist, and of that series, this brooding, "psychologically interiorized" portrait of the young adult saint, shown (except for the cross) without any of his usual symbolic attributes, is considered by scholars the most radical portrait of the series. Caravaggio's unusual practice of composing directly on the canvas without any underpainting, incising salient features with the blunt end of his brush handle (or perhaps with a knife, as dramatized by Derek Jarman in his 1986 film) is evident here particularly on John's left leg. The scoring is visible in the high resolution scan from Google Art.
 * Articles in which this image appears:John the Baptist (Caravaggio), Tenebrism, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Chronology of works by Caravaggio
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio


 * Support as nominator – Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 18:59, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support, fascinating art acquisition story !!! &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:25, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – Jobas (talk) 12:05, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – SchroCat (talk) 10:20, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support --PetarM (talk) 10:56, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:38, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Godot13 (talk) 22:27, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – DreamSparrow  Chat   18:57, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 19:08, 27 October 2015 (UTC)