Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Origin of the Milky Way

The Origin of the Milky Way

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Non-Prado version – The Origin of the Milky Way by Peter Paul Rubens featuring the Greco-Roman myth of the origin of the Milky Way. The painting depicts Hera, spilling her breast milk, the infant Heracles and Zeus in the background, identifiable by his eagle and lightening bolts. Hera's face is modelled on Rubens' wife, Hélène Fourment. The carriage is pulled by Hera's favourite animals, peacocks.

Prado version

Reason

Prado's version is actually smaller than the other we have, so I'm putting both to consider. The painting's article currently contains the bigger, non-Prado version.

Articles in which this image appears

The Origin of the Milky Way (Rubens), Helena Fourment, Peter Paul Rubens (all non-Prado version)

FP category for this image

Paintings

Creator

Peter Paul Rubens

• Support as nominator – Brandmeister^talk 20:26, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support PRADO VERSION: I trust that over a blogspot source. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:49, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support Prado version – Perhaps they cleaned it? Sca (talk) 18:27, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support Prado version --Tremonist (talk) 17:08, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support Prado version – Yann (talk) 11:16, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support Prado version – Jobas (talk) 16:38, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Peter Paul Rubens - The Birth of the Milky Way, 1636-1637.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:41, 1 December 2015 (UTC)