Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Pedro Nunes April 2009-1a.jpg

Pedro Nunes and the Padrão dos Descobrimentos

Original - Detail of the Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Monument to the Portuguese Discoveries) showing the mathematician and cosmographer Pedro Nunes with an armillary sphere. To his left, Jácome de Maiorca (Catalan cosmographer and chart maker) and Pedro Escobar (navigator); to his right, Pêro de Alenquer (navigator), Gil Eanes (navigator) and João Gonçalves Zarco (navigator). Sculptures by Leopoldo de Almeida, architectutal design by Cottinelli Telmo.

Reason

Very high resolution image illustrating part of a well-known contemporary masterpiece. The size, number of figures and detail of the monument justifies IMO partial illustrations like this one. The picture is a panorama of three photos

Articles this image appears in

Pedro Nunes, Padrão dos Descobrimentos

Creator

Alvesgaspar (talk)

• Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 20:57, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
• Comment It's a bit tightly cropped: Is there a reason for that? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 23:21, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
  • There is no ideal solution to the crop. See the whole thing here -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
• Comment Any reason you picked these six? Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:08, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
  • Yes, the need to illustrate the article on Pedro Nunes, which had no picture. But the image would be unbalanced with a single figure, so I joined some other which are related with the subject (navigation and cartography) Alvesgaspar (talk) 00:50, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 10:17, 26 April 2009 (UTC)