Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/school of athens

The School of Athens

 * Reason:One of the defining works of art of the Renaissance- in fact, it's used in Template:Renaissance.
 * Proposed caption:The School of Athens or "Scuola di Atene" in Italian is one of the most famous paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1510 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms that are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
 * Articles this image appears in:The School of Athens, Renaissance, Raphael
 * Creator:Raphael


 * Support as nominator ⁪ffroth  20:10, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment, doesn't load for me. --Aqwis 20:31, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment, i still can't load it on any of my three computers and have no idea why. Anyone have the same problem? --Aqwis 10:19, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment, i can't even load it in IE6, IE7 or Opera. At least my vote wouldn't matter now anyway. ;) --Aqwis 16:08, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. Crooked, and also stitching errors (especially visible below the blue-toga guy sitting on the stairs).  Could be cropped better, too.  Spikebrennan 21:44, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The arch looks crooked at the top but the floor is perfectly straight (except on the left side where it wobbles downward a bit). Presumably this is because it's a fresco and painted on a non-flat surface. I do see a couple of tiny stiching errors.. forgivable IMO- this is a fantastic shot, just look at the detail in the upper-left and upper-right corners -- ⁪ffroth 21:57, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Support It does look crooked to me, and to me the floor (are we looking at the same thing?) is crooked. The crop is a little tight especially at the bottom, but the stitching is acceptable; I had to really look hard to find the example pointed out above. If someone can suggest a better crop/rotation it would be that much better. I'd add a sentence to the caption, something like "...and depicts important scholars such as Plato, Aristotle, and Pythagoras, whose ideas shaped the course of western civilization..." Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 01:20, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Excellent detail, highly encyclopedic. &mdash; BRIAN 0918 &bull; 2007-11-12 14:39Z
 * Support Very fine, informative picture —Preceding unsigned comment added by H92110 (talk • contribs) 18:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Support A great job. Matt Deres 04:12, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.--Mbz1 15:33, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose Crooked and off center. -- Grandpafootsoldier 01:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. It could be a little better but this is a FP quality already.--Svetovid 12:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - could someone do the same thing (i.e., download and stitch the image together) for The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) from the Vatican's website. The current picture isn't as good.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Remember (talk • contribs) 18:18, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

MER-C 01:24, 17 November 2007 (UTC)