Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pieta

Pietà (Michelangelo)[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 16 Oct 2012 at 04:53:21 (UTC)

Reason: High ev as lead image, good quality, also featured on commons and Croatian and Azerbaijani wikipedias
Articles in which this image appears: Pietà (Michelangelo), Pietà, etc.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Sculpture
Creator: Stanislav Traykov

Support as nominator --Spongie555 (talk) 04:53, 7 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support valuable and much EV. Alborzagros (talk) 06:38, 7 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Per Alborzagros --ZeWrestler ^Talk 19:42, 7 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Small and bad angle. Makeemlighter (talk) 22:41, 7 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support and while mine may not be an expert opinion, I'll share it. Having been inside the cathedral, I understand how difficult it was to get this shot. The light is so low in there that a standard tourist camera or setup (point and shoot or DSLR w/ no tripod) will produce horrible results. So unless the Vatican's photographer releases his edition, we won't get a better picture (I am assuming the Vatican has a photographer, and he —sorry, not likely to be a she— would have permission to take enough equipment and extra lights). The entire statue is in focus, good detail is visible. The EV is very good. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 19:50, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Pine^✉ 00:34, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I was in St Peter's not long ago after I received my STB (even though they can issue it in America, it's "traditional", if you will, to get it from the related pontifical faculty in Rome), and I'm surprised the photographer was able to get anything more than shadows out of the picture. My pictures were shadows, with lighter shadows, and some chiaroscuro, with a hint of a sculpture somewhere in them. In summum, echo and support per Wingtipvorte. St John Chrysostom ^Δόξα_τω^Θεώ 09:12, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. Best that can be done under the circumstances, unless you get Kevin Garnett to hold your camera for you. Chick Bowen 02:41, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The base appears slightly tilted to the left, perhaps should be fixed. Brandmeister^talk 16:40, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 07:01, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Michelangelo's Pieta 5450 cropncleaned edit.jpg --Julia\^talk 20:34, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]