Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Alba Madonna

Alba Madonna

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Original – The Alba Madonna is an oil painting by Raphael which was completed in 1510. It depicts Mary, Jesus, and John the Baptist; the baby Jesus is grasping a cross.

Reason

Very high quality scan of a notable painting by a grand master.

Articles in which this image appears

Alba Madonna +2

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Raphael

• Support as nominator –  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:59, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support Hafspajen (talk) 14:15, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
• Comment What's the protocol on the color surrounding the frame crop? File:Hendrick Averkamp A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle.jpg and File:Leonardo da Vinci Virgin of the Rocks (National Gallery London).jpg have white backgrounds, so I was just wondering if we can standardize.chsh (talk) 15:29, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
  • Other featured images have black backgrounds, such as File:Rembrandt, Self Portrait at the Age of 34.jpg and File:Tiepolo Vercellae.jpg. If anything, there's a predominance of it; all of my MET uploads (which include the whole canvas, meaning they're not cropped to straight lines), for instance, have the MET's standard black background (though cropped very tightly, such that it may not be evident at thumbnail). I don't see a need to standardize, for two reasons. First, when we do the cut-out or color change ourselves, it's very easy to introduce inaccuracies (color fringing, etc.) and technical issues (overly jagged/sharp cutouts being my pet peeve). Second, different paintings will have different needs. A very bright painting would probably do poorly on a white background, and a very dark painting (An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump comes to mind) would probably do poorly on a black background. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:47, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Yann (talk) 17:50, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support – very nice, excellent scan, very good EV. What a fascinating history the painting has. SagaciousPhil - Chat 09:44, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Also good EV in Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings - Zeete (talk) 19:14, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Raphael - The Alba Madonna - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:00, 22 May 2015 (UTC)