Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Young Man with a Skull

Young Man with a Skull

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Original – Young Man with a Skull (1626) by Frans Hals; previously considered to be Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick, this is now thought to be a vanitas, a study on the transience of life and the certainty of death. Vanitas was a popular topic with Dutch artists, and the tradition of portraying skulls being held by young boys dates back to the early 16th century.

Reason

Excellent scan of superb picture

Articles in which this image appears

Young Man with a Skull + 7

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Frans Hals

• Support as nominator (Second nom of this picture, which had no real reason not to pass last time.) – SchroCat (talk) 10:41, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support He looks a bit pasty though; perhaps he's feeling a bit sick after removing a skeleton's head; poor skeelingten. Belle (talk) 11:09, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 12:12, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:12, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Godot13 (talk) 22:25, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support Mattximus (talk) 16:06, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 09:03, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Young Man with a Skull, Frans Hals, National Gallery, London.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:19, 21 September 2015 (UTC)