Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:El Beso (Pinacoteca de Brera, Milán, 1859).jpg

Valentine Day's nom

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Feb 2015 at 00:47:24 (UTC)

Original – The painting, representation of a passionate kiss, is enormously popular in Italy, and is seen as a symbol of Italian Romanticism, that emphasizes deep feelings rather than rational thought, and presents a reinterpretation and reevaluation of the Middle Ages romantic love ideals in a patriotic and nostalgic tone.

York Scan - people DON'T consider this - this not an ALT - it was only posted to show difference between the old upload and the very original that has been correct in colours and size from the very beginning. This one was overwritten, and original sourcing is solved.

Reason

Own article, big file. The painting from 1859 represents a couple embracing and kissing each other. It is among the most passionate and intense representations of a kiss in the history of Western art. Jewel in Romanticism: Hayez’s “The Kiss”:

The kiss. A magical word used to name many works of art, the most renowned probably being Klimt’s golden embrace. Of equal splendor is Il Bacio (Italian for The Kiss), a Romantic painting by Milanese artist Francesco Hayez. However, Il Bacio doesn’t show just a kiss. Il Bacio is the iconic kiss that represents the birth of Italy.

Articles in which this image appears

The Kiss (Hayez), Francesco Hayez, Italian art, Italian unification, Culture of Milan, The Kiss (Klimt), ‎Pinacoteca di Brera, Lip

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Francesco Hayez

• Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 00:47, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Hafs, don't you want to add a caption? - CorinneSD (talk) 01:57, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
• Question - Love it... but where's the scan from? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:24, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• It is 100 years old anyway. Maybe this? cos' it's from the museum. Or ?this, ^{go to H, search Hayez, click pic.}Hafspajen (talk) 07:10, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Or maybe this..... Or God send it to us. Hafspajen (talk) 08:09, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Museum, likely. Needs to be updated on the file page. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:23, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support - Haffy, your valentine?  - T H (here I am) 10:14, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Prefer original now.. - T H (here I am) 16:20, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support original for next Valentine FP in 2016 (even though I'm single). Brandmeister^talk 12:56, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support original – Classic, archetyical pose. (Although if you zero in on them it looks like they're just touching noses.) Sca (talk) 15:06, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support per T H ! talk→ WPPilot  04:59, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support I saw something similar in a nearby park few days ago, possibly on 14th Feb. Jim Carter 13:03, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

You must..Its Valentine.. Ṫ Ḧ ^{the fury of the nature}_{given flesh} 03:30, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support - Jobas (talk) 16:53, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:El Beso (Pinacoteca de Brera, Milán, 1859).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:49, 24 February 2015 (UTC)