Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Departure Herald, Xuande Era Panoramic Painting

Departure Herald, Jiajing Era Panoramic Painting

Original - A panoramic painting showing the Chinese Jiajing Emperor (1522-1566 AD) traveling through the countryside with a huge cavalry escort and an elephant-driven carriage.

Reason: HOLY SHIT, BATMAN! Pardon my French, good sirs, but this painting is simply bad ass to the max. It reminds me of these two featured pictures of Chinese panoramas here and here. This Ming Dynasty panoramic Chinese painting shows the Xuande Emperor's (r. 1425-1435 AD) very lavish procession through the countryside, complete with armed cavalry, tall military banners, large sedan chairs being carried by teams of men, and gigantic carriages driven by teams of elephants and horses. It is 24,894 × 870 pixels in size, for those who like incredibly lengthy images.
Articles this image appears in: Xuande Emperor, Ming Dynasty Tombs
Creator: An anonymous Chinese painter(s) of the Ming Dynasty period

Support as nominator --Pericles of Athens^Talk 10:08, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Superb. I'd love to see this in more detail but there are understandable limitations here. A shame there are some breaks in the silk but this is a very good digitisation. Great find. --mikaul^talk 11:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to say, Spencer is quite right about the stitching errors. That'll teach me to review noms after bedtime :o/ For those interested, it seems to involve both sides of a single frame about 1600px from the right. A real shame as that's just carelessness on the part of the archivist and would be easy to fix from the original files. --mikaul^talk 23:29, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Obvious stitching errors, and a strange line of pixels running along the top. Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 17:34, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- In addition, current usage (how small it is) in Xuande Emperor, where it has the most EV, is really not-so-good. Perhaps scrolling and a larger height would be better? Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 17:36, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have fixed the issue of it being too small in the Xuande Emperor article by giving it its own section where it can be displayed as a larger image. As for stitching errors and the line of pixels at the top, let me see what I can do. I will contact someone who is good with image manipulation.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 17:51, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I removed the brown line per request. I'm not too sure that the vertical lines are stitching errors, they might as well be in the original painting, depending on the material and how it was stored. ~ trialsanderrors (talk) 11:06, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Trialsanderrors! You may have saved this nomination (yet again).--Pericles of Athens^Talk 11:27, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the vertical lines are indeed stitching errors. If you look closely, in one case, the branches of a tree do not line up correctly. Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 14:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well that sucks. Too bad. It's a beautiful painting.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 15:07, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --wadester 16 18:37, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]