Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Repin Cossacks

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire

 * Reason:Do I really need to give a reason for why I tink this is one of the best images on Wikipedia, and encyclopedic to boot? It is one of the great artworks, wonderfully reproduced, with historical interest, wide usage, and a liveliness that few artworks manage.
 * Articles this image appears in: Ukraine, Cossacks, Ukrainians, Mehmed IV, Flag of Ukraine, Khokhol, Ilya Repin, Zaporozhian Cossacks, Islam in Ukraine, Dmytro Yavornytsky, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Bashlyk, 100 Great Paintings
 * Creator:Ilya Yefimovich Repin


 * Support as nominator Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 09:02, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose Totally blown highlights. --Janke | Talk 16:36, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * How can you have blown out highlights on a painting? O.o TheOtherSiguy (talk) 00:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Depth of color in the scan of the painting. (Are there, in fact, blown highlights in this scan, or are the white areas in the original really that white?)  Spikebrennan (talk) 14:29, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 09:00, 14 March 2008 (UTC)