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File:Mary, Queen of Scots after Nicholas Hilliard.jpg[edit]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 19 Jul 2014 at 22:48:10 (UTC)
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Info created by unknown after Nicholas Hilliard - uploaded by Dcoetzee - nominated by Nobelpeopleuploader -- Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 22:48, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Support -- Nobelpeopleuploader (
talk) 22:48, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Comment I uploaded Hilliards's miniature of Queen Elizabeth I to Commons myself earlier this year. There seems to me to be a couple of issues here: 1 this is a Coetzee bequest image. I'm not sure it's best diplomatic we nominate these images as "Featured" right now 2 are we really going to list every high resolution image of a work of art as "Featured"? They must now run into their tens of thousands if we take account of Google Art Project and galleries such as NGA Washington, Rijksmuseum, and the Prado, to name but just three that come to mind that make available high resolution images, and then both the major auctioneers and others, as well as a host of smaller institutions who take no special steps against stitching their high resolution tiles. I'm inclined to think we should up the bar for art works to "ultra high resolution", such as this one, a van Gogh Sunflowers I recently nominated at Wikipedia Featured Pictures. One interesting thing about Google Art Project images is that fine as they are, they rarely approach the best available from their source museums. This is so for the van Gogh I nominated. That one comes from the Van Gogh Museum as you can readily check by going to the appropriate museum page. It's much superior to the Google Art project version. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 23:45, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- Comment I see your point. Can I withdraw my nomination - and how? --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 21:30, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 21:39, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
