Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The vanity of the artist

The vanity of the artist

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Original – Young Man with a Skull (1626) by Frans Hals; previously considered to be Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick, this is now thought to be a vanitas, a study on the transience of life and the certainty of death. Vanitas was a popular topic with Dutch artists, and the tradition of portraying skulls being held by young boys dates back to the early 16th century.

Reason: Excellent scan of superb picture
Articles in which this image appears: Young Man with a Skull + 7
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Frans Hals

Support as nominator – SchroCat (talk) 08:20, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Great scan! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:23, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Out of category of rudimentary paintings. Belonging to adroitly-painted works.____Alborzagros (talk) 13:00, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment There are a lot of white dots, specially on the lower part. Yann (talk) 12:59, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- The vast majority appear to be light reflecting off imperfections in the paint (par for the course for these types of images). A couple (the one on his chin, for instance) are so square that I wonder if they could be hot pixels, but I dare not remove them considering the issues we've had with digitally manipulated paintings before. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:09, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:21, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]