Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Three Brothers
The Three Brothers jewel[edit]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Aug 2020 at 15:34:22 (UTC)
- Reason
- Just large enough to meet the FP criteria, good quality for a painting from 1500. Essential for the article since it's both the earliest visual representation of the jewel, and the only drawing of it by itself.
- Articles in which this image appears
- The Three Brothers (jewel), Thomas Cletcher
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Artwork/Paintings
- Creator
- Unknown painter. Photograph by Peter Portner, Basel Historical Museum
- Support as nominator I know it's relatively small for FP, but it's good quality, and something different. -- Arcaist contribs • talk 15:34, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
- Given the actual object isn't known to still exist, Support. Speculating, I think we have that rather awkward white goache-darkens-over-time effect going on with the pearls, but... not much that can be done there. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.4% of all FPs 19:50, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
- Ah, didn't know that gouache does that. Might there have been a convention of painting pearls darker than normal? I know something similar was done with diamonds in pre-18th century painting. -- Arcaist contribs • talk 21:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
- I am not an expert in 15th century painting, and it's possible it's not gouache in the first place, or that the darkening only applies to the 19th century gouache that I keep facing in opera set designs. Paint can change over time, though; that said, it should not affect promoting this. It's very encyclopedic, even if the pearls look a bit darker. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.4% of all FPs 01:40, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- Ah, didn't know that gouache does that. Might there have been a convention of painting pearls darker than normal? I know something similar was done with diamonds in pre-18th century painting. -- Arcaist contribs • talk 21:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
- Support – Bammesk (talk) 03:24, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- Support. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:27, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 18:13, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Promoted File:Three Brothers jewel Basel.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:01, 30 August 2020 (UTC)