Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Two Lovers (Reza Abbasi)

Two Lovers (Reza Abbasi)

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Original – Reza Abbasi's Two Lovers, tempera and gold on paper. Dating from 1629-30, this work shows two people in an embrace.

Reason

High technical quality, interesting image as it is a depiction of homosexuality from a region (Persia, now Iran) where such acts are now banned and carry the death penalty.

Articles in which this image appears

Reza Abbasi, History of painting, Painting, and History of graphic design

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others?

Creator

Reza Abbasi

• Support as nominator -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:37, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
• Comment It is not a homosexual image, you can see a breast and wide female hip of person in brown clothing at the front. Brandmeister^talk 10:51, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

• Stricken. I seem to recall seeing it on the MET webpage but can't find it anymore.  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:59, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Support good photo of the work, although I'm not fond of the work itself Pine^(talk) 06:56, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

• Above support added by Pine. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:46, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

• Signed now, thanks. Pine^(talk) 06:56, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 22:13, 22 May 2012 (UTC)