Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Correggio (Antonio Allegri) (Italian - Head of Christ - Google Art Project.jpg

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Reason

Good scan, good artist. Head of Christ is painted by the Italian Renaissance painter Correggio, depicting the head of Christ, wearing the crown of thorns. In the background there is a white cloth showing that the image represents the Veil of Veronica. The painting is painting held by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Los Angeles. The Getty Museum considers this artwork as one of the masterpieces held by the museum.

Articles in which this image appears

Head of Christ (Correggio) (own article) Antonio da Correggio, Veil of Veronica

FP category for this image

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

Creator

Correggio

• Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 15:24, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Jobas (talk) 15:50, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Good EV with article. Hafs, do you mean to have the first link of the reason section to a different head of Christ painting?--Godot13 (talk) 17:13, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• ^{Do I mean ... the first link of the reason ...what, Godot13? Gosh, sorry, wrong link. Hafspajen (talk) 12:59, 16 October 2015 (UTC)}[reply]

• Support, strongly agree with assessment by Hafspajen, thank you for nominating this. — Cirt (talk) 23:07, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 14:04, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:24, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - SchroCat (talk) 13:23, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 18:56, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Correggio (Antonio Allegri) (Italian) - Head of Christ - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:26, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Added it to the Artwork category, as there is an article about the painting. --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:26, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]