Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Charon - Divine Comedy II

Charon, part II

Original - Charon herds the sinners onto his boat, smacking the stragglers with his oar, in Gustave Doré's illustration of Canto III of Dante's Divine Comedy

Reason

Pretty much per below. Just thought one of Doré's big action scenes wouldn't go amiss. Typical of Doré's action scenes, it's quite complex and detailed - I believe he's here imitating the layout of Greek urns and the like - so it doesn't look as good in this small thumbnail.

Articles this image appears in

Charon (mythology), Gustave Doré.

Creator

Gustave Doré

• Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 22:58, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
• Support - wow... intense... yet funny. I think it's amusing to imagine Charon smacking naked dead people with an oar and shouting a lot. ;) Intothewoods29 (talk) 04:07, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
• Support. A well-reproduced Dore. What's not to like?--ragesoss (talk) 17:30, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
• Withdraw I just discovered the edition I used just didn't care, and cropped the images. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 21:51, 20 November 2008 (UTC)