Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Empress Li, Wife of Emperor Zhenzong of Song

Empress Li, Wife of Emperor Zhenzong of Song

Original - Empress Li, wife of Emperor Zhenzong of Song (r. 997-1022 AD)

Just as a reference, here is a different upload of the same painting, although it is much darker and smaller (at 800 × 1,143 pixels)

Reason: The official Song Dynasty court portrait painting of the Chinese Empress Li, wife of Emperor Zhenzong of Song (r. 997-1022 AD), sitting at her throne and wearing her finest silks, a crown, and some very unique (or, dare I say, bizarre) ceremonial facial make-up; this image violates no FP criteria that I know of and is 1,755 × 2,589 pixels in size.
Articles this image appears in: Han Chinese clothing, Society of the Song Dynasty
Creator: Stout256

Support as nominator --Pericles of Athens^Talk 14:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Spikebrennan (talk) 13:59, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent! This is technically not the first support I've ever gotten for a FPC, but the first one was eventually withdrawn from another nomination (due to stitching errors). I'm glad you liked the image! Cheers.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 14:46, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't lose hope. Most FPC regulars probably have a majority of their FPC noms fail to be promoted. There's a learning curve. Your batch of nominations certainly have EV, but we're sticklers for the other technical stuff as well. Spikebrennan (talk) 18:45, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weak support another book scan, more visible halftone... like the other portrait down the page a bit, it's a really good subject and just needs half-decent repro to blow me away. The original work is pretty much life-size at 1.5m high, so instead I'm left longing for the wealth of missing detail. --mikaul^talk 13:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's understandable, but Google images apparently does not have anything better to offer than this nominated version here. Until someone takes a masterpiece photograph of this painting, this is perhaps the best image of it available online.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 14:49, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. The scan just doesn't reproduce the level of detail of the original, and the halftoning also detracts. As Spikebrennan says, though, don't give up!. --ragesoss (talk) 15:30, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, apparently I'm not too good at judging these things. I'm afraid that anything I propose will just get swatted down! Especially these paintings; all of them seem to have at least one defect or drawback which is unacceptable to reviewers here.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 15:53, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --wadester 16 05:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]