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Verdi conducts Aida

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Original – Guiseppe Verdi conducts Aida

Reason: One of the few featureable images of Verdi himsellf (It is HARD to get images of him at bigger than web resolution - unless you count massive upscales). I've recently went through Aida - which was a mess beforehand - and tried to get it down to only images that add a substantial amount of value, appropriately positioned (the other issue with images before - there really was no rhyme or reason to image positioning).
Articles in which this image appears: Aida
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Theatre
Creator: Adrien Marie, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:09, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Cote d'Azur (talk) 17:04, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment My search yielded at least two featurable photographs of Verdi, both by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, one from Stadtmuseum Berlin and the other one at Radio Télévision Suisse. Both would need some restoration though, don't know whether they are on Commons already. Brandmeister^talk 19:51, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you; I'll add those to my list. The first looks like it'll have many an annoying discussion about crop or don't crop, so I'll probably start on the second. Still think this is a very useful image for showing a side photographs of the time weren't good enough to show. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:49, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Not sure on the EV. If this could be worked into the main Verdi article, there'd be enough EV for me to support. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:39, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I think it has a fair bit of EV in the Aida article; I'm hesitant about the Verdi article, as it doesn't really fit anywhere in it with high EV - it's a later performance of Aida, during a time the article (quite rightly) is focusing on his Mass and Otello, major works of the period. But, in Aida, it illustrates the section on other notable 19th century performanes - which it certainly depicts - and thus has much higher EV and illustrative value. It's also the only image of Verdi in that article, increasing the EV furher. I'm certainly not against it being in Giuseppe Verdi, of course, but only if it's appropriate. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 05:38, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think that it is him conducting it makes it EVey enough. [subliminal: "Monkeys in hats; monkeys in hats"] Belle (talk) 00:03, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Alright. I would like to see it in Verdi, but your point is well taken. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:34, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question: Was that a pen & ink drawing? Sca (talk) 13:48, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Sca: I'm not sure. It's a little hard to tell when it's converted to printing. It'll be something like that, but it could, for example, be ink with washes, or watercolour. The originals may exist, but it's rare to ever see them. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:37, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So it's a print from an etched lead plate ... ? Sca (talk) 14:52, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm honestly unsure. It's from a newspaper, so it'll be some sort of engraving, but the standard for this time was woodblock and it's kind of unusual for that, which throws me. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:21, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If this old boy remembers right, the old newspaper 'cuts' were wood blocks topped with a layer of lead alloy. Then they were 'stereotyped' onto curved lead-alloy printing plates for the old rotary (letterpress) presses. Sca (talk) 16:08, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's more modern than was used in 1881, though. Pretty sure that was before rotary plates. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:50, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Probably so. And maybe the 'cuts' were zinc-topped not lead-alloy.

I do remember the gnomes emerging from Engraving in acid-ravaged clothes. Sca (talk) 17:15, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ach, if you have photos of any of this, we need them on Wikipedia. =) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:27, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support-Jobas (talk) 17:37, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Verdi conducting Aida in Paris 1880 - Gallica - Restoration.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:10, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]