Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sadko

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[edit] Sadko

Original - Ilya Yefimovich Repin's Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom (1876).

Reason: This is a extremely clear image, very sharp.
Articles this image appears in: Slavic mythology, Ilya Repin, Sadko (opera)
Creator: Butko

Support as nominator - Milk's Favorite Cookie 01:14, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Support Beautiful. Durova^Charge! 02:43, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Support. Wow. Spikebrennan (talk) 03:42, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Support--Mbz1 (talk) 04:06, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Support Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 07:28, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Support. Brilliant painting, image quality is clear and sharp.--TBC !?! 07:30, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Support. Angelono2008 (talk) 09:29, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Support One of my favorite images I've come across on Wikipedia, would have nom'd myself had I realized it wasn't featured already. faithless (^speak) 10:16, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Support —αἰτίας •discussion• 18:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Support - meets all the criteria.--Svetovid (talk) 23:24, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Oppose, strikes me as mediocre quality for a painting 323cm wide. Sure the subject matter is great... but in FPC it's the scan that matters most. Had it been smaller I would have supported. gren グレン 08:35, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Oppose. What makes this stand out amongst the tons of reproductions we have? Clear and sharp?! Sorry but at the given size this is barely the standard! --Dschwen 15:44, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
weak support per some of the concerns above, but I think it still passes muster. Matt Deres (talk) 22:03, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Oppose Poor scan quality and/or processing; it's really shouldn't carry so much in the way of "dead" blacks and clear whites, the sort of thing that happens if you go the "auto levels" route. I suspect the original would be much more subtle. A real pity, it's a stunning painting. --mikaul^talk 01:51, 13 March 2008 (UTC)