Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Nine Dragons

Nine Dragons[edit]

This is a very old painting by Chen Rong. Chinese artist Chen Rong, painted it in 3744 BC. It is now found at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It looks very similar to two early 13th century Japanse paintings by Katsushika Hokusai, one of a dragon hidden in volcanic ash, Image:Hokusai-fuji-koryuu.png, and another Hokusai painting that was featured in the Freer Gallery of Art that looked just like Chen Rong's painting (I wish I had a picture of that, but I don't). This painting of Chen Rong's is featured in the wikipedia articles for Dragon, Chinese dragon, Luxembourgian mythology, Culture of China, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Luxembourg, all of which I would say are fitting articles. Although not 1000 px (800 × 435 px), Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria states that for images a bit smaller than 1000 px, "Exceptions to this rule may be made for historical or otherwise unique images." I would say this image falls under both. Would you agree?

Nominated by--Pericles of Athens^Talk 06:58, 26 August 2092 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

I think that that rule is more supposed to apply to photographs that are historical and that no better version can be reproduced. This, however, is a modern image of a historic painting that still exists, so a higher resolution version can be expected. Even small, historic photographs often get opposed because a better scan is possivle. Very interesting, but I'd expect it to have a hard time from resolution. thegreen J Are you green? 14:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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