Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Guido Reni - Saint Joseph and the Christ Child - Google Art Project.jpg

Joseph and the Child

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Original – The picture depicts the intimate joy of a child looking up into his father face and the father looking serene, slightly smiling back at him. An enigmatic smile that is almost just can be guessed, looking at the eyes...

Reason: Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style, highly estimated while he lived, one of the important painters in the art history. This picture is one of the most intimate and warm depictions of a father figure, a person who has a key role in a child's life. Joseph, a typical father figure, is often lost and forgotten in art history. There are plenty of pictures of the Madonna and Child, but not so many made of Joseph and Child. This one is particulary nice, kept together by the warm colors and a good composition, using Joseph cloak as a frame. It could depict any child and father, the feelings are universal.
Articles in which this image appears: Guido Reni
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Guido Reni

Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 22:07, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:32, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Bellus Delphina ^talk 08:05, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Interesting for rarity of subject matter, as Hafs says, and also for its depiction of Joseph as an old man, in keeping with a certain theological tradition (which later fell out of favor, if I'm not mistaken). Sca (talk) 15:45, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support ///EuroCarGT 01:55, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support: per nom and agree with Sca's comment. Fylbecatulous talk 13:41, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Guido Reni - Saint Joseph and the Christ Child - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:16, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]