Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Mona Lisa (third nomination)

Mona Lisa (third nomination)

Original - the Mona Lisa

The first and second nominations have left this version as the last one that hasn't been declined as featured picture in English Wikipedia among the currently available Mona Lisa versions.

Articles this image appears in

(most of them link to Mona Lisa.jpg - first 500 articles are found at [1])

Creator

Leonardo da Vinci

Suggested by

Mikael Häggström (talk) 08:44, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments

• A real snowball, I'm afraid, considering the much better second nomination failed. In comparison, this one has lower resolution, poor colour balance, some very strange damage and coloration to the top and doesn't appear in any articles. --mikaul^talk 10:00, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
  • Correction: doesn't appear in the Mona Lisa article... --mikaul^talk 10:02, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
• This might be because this version of the Mona Lisa is terrible. If there already are Mona Lisa FPs, this isn't going to get restored either. Sorry. Nezzadar ^[SPEAK] 17:26, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
• 'Okay, misunderstood that. This version has major issues and will likely not be able to be fixed to FP quality. How is it that there isn't an FP Mona Lisa? Nezzadar ^[SPEAK] 17:28, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
  • For the same reason this one doesn't cut it: reproduction (scanning) doesn't do justice to the original. Frustrating, but this is what keeps most famous artworks off the front page, largely due to proprietorial concerns. If you could get a free, quality high-res scan from Commons, no-one would buy the poster from the gallery/museum gift shop... mikaul^talk 19:30, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

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