Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Alexander Mosaic

Alexander Mosaic

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Original – Alexander the Great, depicted on the Alexander Mosaic, originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii, c. 100 BC. The mosaic is believed to be a copy of an early 3rd century BC Hellenistic painting, probably by Philoxenos of Eretria.

Reason

Finally found this while searching for a good reproduction of the Alexander Mosaic. The image's sharpness allows to see individual tiles of the mosaic, showing this well-known area.

Articles in which this image appears

Alexander Mosaic, Alexander the Great

FP category for this image

Artwork/Others

Creator

unknown

• Support as nominator – Brandmeister^talk 09:41, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
• I really, really want to support this... but do we have precedent for PD-Art applying to tile mosaics? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:50, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

• Yes, several, also from DcoetzeeBot. Tile mosaics like these is reasonably an art. Brandmeister^talk 10:11, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

• It's not the art that worried me. It's the 2D-ness of the work. But I guess that's reasonable enough precedent. Support — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:15, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support I thought maybe the camera was positioned a bit to the right of the subject, but it looks like that's just the perspective of the mosaic (we should also get a picture when they finish it; these Romans are sooo slow). Belle (talk) 09:47, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
• Support - an encyclopedia should have good, accurate, thorough versions of art like this, and the Alexander the Great mosaic, well, it is a classic in both the historical and artistic senses. This image looks like it captures everything important about the original piece of art, including the placement of each of the tiles. Gotta love that! KDS4444^Talk 16:08, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
• Support Per KDS4444. While I'd like to see us feature the full mosaic at some point, I think this is a reasonably self-selecting detail from it, given the damaged areas cut it off, and it shows the most important figure. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 23:21, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Alexander the Great mosaic.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:32, 26 September 2014 (UTC)