Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Francesca da Rimini

Dante's Inferno: Francesca da Rimini in the hurricane of souls

Original - Dante is overcome with emotion at Francesca da Rimini's tale, while the hurricane of souls that she and her lover are trapped in roar around the scene. From Gustave Doré's illustrations to the Divine Comedy (1857).

Reason

Sorry if this is a lot of Doré - I am trying to be highly selective, as I'm preparing a complete set of all hundred or so illustrations Doré did of the Divine Comedy, and, obviously, I don't expect them all to be featured. However, I think this is easily the best of Doré's images of the hurricane of souls in the second circle of Hell, and the dramatic layout and imagery really illustrates this part of the plot very well.

Doré's Divine Comedy is usually considered one of his masterworks - certainly, it generally features heavily in any compilation of Doré - and there are more than 75 illustrations in Inferno (and about a dozen each for Purgatorio and Paradiso, proving what generations have thought: They just aren't as interesting.) I thought I'd try for the best 5 to 15 percent of the illustrations (in my view, of course), getting us an excellent selection of Doré's work, without overwhelming FP with Doré.

Articles this image appears in

Francesca da Rimini, The Divine Comedy

Creator

Gustave Doré

• Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 17:34, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Excellent reproduction. Spikebrennan (talk) 17:44, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
• Support because of quality and awesome description on the image page. :) Intothewoods29 (talk) 01:25, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Keep the Dore coming.--ragesoss (talk) 17:27, 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)
• comment - these seem like a perfect group for a featured image set. de Bivort 07:06, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
  • Yes, except that a Featured set must be complete. Since there are a finite number of engravings, we'd need all of them (and some of them aren't up to par). Not even these make it because, from what I understand, this image itself is not complete.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 18:32, 22 November 2008 (UTC)