Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Goddess of Love exhausts the God of War

The Goddess of Love exhausts the God of War

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Original – Venus and Mars (c. 1845); The goddess of love, Venus, has exhausted her lover, the god of war, Mars. She, still awake, watches him, exhausted and asleep and stripped of his armour and weapons: love conquers all. So tired is he, that the satyrs haver stolen his lance – and no explanation is needed as to the loss of his second phallic weapon!

Original National Gallery scan

Reason

A great image of a painting by one of the great of the masters of the Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli

Articles in which this image appears

Mars and Venus (Botticelli), Themes in Italian Renaissance painting, 1500–50 in Western European fashion, Sandro Botticelli + 2 others

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology, Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Sandro Botticelli

• Support National Gallery (as nominator of orig) – SchroCat (talk) 12:44, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
• Comment - Colours between the source and Wikipedia's copy are different. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:00, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
• Comment - and me who put this one in the article with the hope it will be nominated some day.... Hafspajen (talk) 01:53, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
• Support original natgat scan. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 19:04, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
• Support natgat scan Hafspajen (talk) 19:17, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
• Support natgat alt original has too much vibrancy. talk→ WPPilot  00:06, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support natgat scan – Excellent scan, high EV. SagaciousPhil - Chat 10:34, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support natgat scan, if it's indeed more accurate. I started to love this painting. Brandmeister^talk 23:46, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Very nice.-Jobas (talk) 19:19, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Venus and Mars National Gallery.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:38, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

• Added it to the Artwork category, as there is an article about the painting. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:38, 9 February 2015 (UTC)