Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Starry Night (Google Art)

The Starry Night

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 6 Feb 2012 at 08:53:46 (UTC)

Original – The Starry Night, an 1889 painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It measures 73.7 cm × 92.1 cm (29 in × 36¼ in)

Reason: Easily one of Van Gogh's most recognizable works, this faithful reproduction from the Google Art Project is of high resolution and good quality. EV for both the painting and the artist is through the roof.
Articles in which this image appears: The Starry Night, Google Art Project, and several others.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Vincent van Gogh

Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:53, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me) 10:50, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support requires no questions or thought --Guerillero | My Talk 15:32, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Resolution is a bit borderline though. Really would like to see some of the smaller bacteria as well. God Emperor^Talk 16:00, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! 16.4 um/px at the original Google Art resolution... That is pretty impressive! - Zephyris _Talk 19:53, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support Great quality; one of his most definitive works and thus strong EV. Spencer^T♦C 01:42, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Outstanding quality reproduction of what I think is the greatest painting of all time. Nick-D (talk) 11:15, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Now fixed in the Zoom Viewer. --Dschwen 16:25, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I notice this image has evidence of wear on the edges and is pretty dim. The rendition here, however, shows the brush strokes much better and has been cleaned up on the edges. Is the image proposed here somehow preferred to the one I've linked to (perhaps for the sake of historicity?). I much better prefer to enhanced version I've linked to. —Eustress ^talk 01:03, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unable to open the link (dunno why), I can't know for sure. But since it comes from a wallpaper website, the file there may have been retouched before publication. As for a reason to use this one... it's pretty much guaranteed to be an accurate representation of the painting as it was at the time of digitization, and the resolution is much better. Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:16, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nope! 1280x800 and it has substantial parts cropped off. You cannot be serious. Sorry, but please keep in mind that we should choose encyclopedic value and authenticity over sexed-up flickerized saturation fests any time. --Dschwen 14:51, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support Fun fact - my computer used an additional 8.35 GB of ram when I opened this. The quality is amazing. JJ Harrison (talk) 21:48, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. As we discussed previously (see Adam Cuerden's vote and my response), Google has cut off a miniscule sliver of the painting that is visible in its current frame (there's no way to know whether VG intended that sliver to be visible or not). Chick Bowen 01:05, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry, but when I can't view this image, I can't in good conscience vote for it. Wikipedia needs to be accessible for all, not just for geeks who know how to download a huge image. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 09:14, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Odd, on Firefox 10 on Windows 7 starter edition (and a pretty bad connection), I can still view it using the large image viewer tools. They aren't working for you? Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:52, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - K, the 3rd time looking I found the tiny "Interactive large-image-viewer" link on the image page. Do we think that normal users will see this? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 09:42, 4 February 2012 (UTC) [reply]
    - Although it's been discussed many times before, I agree that we should find a way to make it more intuitive. I asked at WT:FPC if we can apply a fix only on the English Wikipedia or if it must be everywhere, but no reply yet. BTW, is this still an oppose? Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:33, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Not my favorite "starry night", but still beautiful and of course top notch quality. Soon we won't need attending museums anymore. - Blieusong (talk) 11:35, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support my favourite Van Gogh.Pernoctator (talk) 01:23, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Van Gogh - Starry Night - Google Art Project.jpg --Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 12:43, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a small note to this: I raised the resolution to 30,000 pixels wide, and also uploaded the full gigapixel image as a set of four tile images, so any lovers of high resolution should feel free to have another look :-) Dcoetzee 09:24, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]