Guidelines
Selecting an image
There is no formal nomination process for adding a new image to the selected images collection. Before adding an image, keep the following in mind:
- Images must be free, either public domain or freely licensed. Fair use images are not permitted outside of the article namespace (see Fair use policy criteria #9).
- Images should be of high quality.
- Images should be a useful means to point to Wikipedia content. Do not add an image that is not in use somewhere within a Wikipedia entry. To determine this, check the bottom of the image page itself, where you will find a list of File Links.
Suggest an image
Feel free to leave any suggestions for a selected image in this section. Comments are helpful.
Nominations:
- Can I suggest the Mural of Cincinnati created by Saul Steinberg? This 75-foot mural is on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, there are images of the conservators working on it.
Adding an image
If you are feeling ambitious, the instructions for adding an entry to the selected image collection are outlined below. Any questions or disagreements about the appropriateness of an entry should be discussed on the talk page.
- Go to {{Selected picture}} and grab the layout template.
- Go to the next available subpage (Portal:Visual arts/Selected image/n+1 - where n is the number of the topmost image on this page, as it will be throughout these instructions).
- Paste the layout template into the subpage and fill in the appropriate fields.
- Go to the main portal page edit screen and find the following text. Look closely as there are other similar components on the page.
{{Random portal component|max=n|seed=29|header=''selected image''|
footer=More selected images...|subpage=Selected image}}
- Change the max attribute from n to n+1. Save and you're done! Thanks for the contribution.
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Cuevas de las Manos
Credit: Mariano CecowskiHand paintings at the Cueva de las Manos on Río Pinturas in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. These were made by the indigenous inhabitants (possibly forefathers of the Tehuelches) some 9,000 years ago.
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The Tetons and the Snake River by Ansel Adams
Credit: National Archives and Records AdministrationAnsel Adams, whose The Tetons and the Snake River (1942, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming) is pictured here, is best known for his black and white photographs of California's Yosemite Valley.
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Michelangelo's Pietà
Credit: Stanislav TraykovSelected picture 4
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Phoenix detail from the Aberdeen Bestiary
Credit: Aberdeen BestiaryIllustration detail of a phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary, a 12th century example of an illustrated manuscript.
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Sand mandala
Credit: Участник:GgvlaDSandpainting in the form of a temporary sand mandala
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Yellow Christ by Paul Gauguin
Credit: PostdlfPaul Gauguin's The Yellow Christ (1889) is a quintessential example of Cloisonnism, a post-Impressionism movement noted for its bold forms and dark contours. The painting now hangs in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
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Detail of Jonah - Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo
Credit: PrimalchaosBuon fresco, as illustrated by a detail of Michelangelo's decoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508-1512), is a challenging painting technique involving the application of watered-down pigment to wet plaster. Painters are forced to work quickly to apply the pigment before the plaster dries.
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Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds by John Constable
Credit: The Yorke ProjectJohn Constable's Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (1823) hangs in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.
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Winged Victory of Samothrace
Credit: Adam CarrThe Winged Victory of Samothrace, thought to date from between 220 to 190 BC, is one of the great surviving masterpieces of sculpture from the Greek Hellenistic period. It now stands at the top of the Louvre's Daru staircase.
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Twilight in the Wilderness by Frederic Edwin Church
Credit: Artchive
Frederic Edwin Church, whose Twilight in the Wilderness is shown here, was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters.
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Plate VI: The Smoking Fire from Carceri d'Invenzione by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Credit: Fb78Giovanni Battista Piranesi was famous for his etchings of imaginary "prisons" as illustrated here by Plate VI: The Smoking Fire from Carceri d'Invenzione.
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Liberty Leading the People
Credit: AavindraaLiberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X of France. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the tricolore flag of the French Revolution in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. The painting is perhaps Delacroix's best-known work.
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Matryoshka dolls
Credit: Gnomz007Matryoshka dolls, also known as Russian nested dolls or Babushka dolls, were seen as early as 1890. They are not a traditional Russian handicraft, although the concept of nested objects was familiar in Russia. The first set of dolls is said to have been made by a painter in the Abramtsevo estate inspired by a set of Japanese wooden dolls representing the Seven Gods of Fortune.
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View of Mt. Fuji from Numazu by Hokusai
Credit: PetrusbarbygereUkiyo-e, "pictures of the floating world", is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, the theatre and pleasure quarters. It is illustrated here by Hokusai's Red Fuji from his Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji series.
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First Vision
Credit: XpjohnStained glass depiction of the First Vision of Joseph Smith, Jr., completed in 1913 by an unknown artist (Museum of Church History and Art).
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Fame Riding Pegasus
Credit: JebulonFame Riding Pegasus by Antoine Coysevox, a sculpture in Carrara marble celebrating Louis XIV of France, was commissioned in 1699 for the decoration of the park of Marly. In 1719 it was transferred to the entrance to the Tuileries Garden, Paris, and since 1986 it has stood in the Louvre.
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Jewess with Oranges
Credit: Google Art ProjectSelected picture 18
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Portrait of Wally Neuzil
Credit: Google Art ProjectSelected picture 19
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Alcobaça Monastery
Credit: AlvesgasparSelected picture 20
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Gustave Le Gray
Credit: Gustave Le GrayTrain station with train and coal depot by Gustave Le Gray, 1856.
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Intentional camera movement
Credit: ColinIntentional camera movement is a photography technique in which a camera is moved during the exposure for a creative or artistic effect.
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Fez
Credit: Fez cover art, designed by Bryan Lee O'MalleyFez is an indie puzzle platform game developed by Polytron Corporation and released in 2012. The player-character Gomez receives a fez that reveals his two-dimensional world to be one of four sides of a three-dimensional world; the player rotates between these four views to realign platforms, solve the game's puzzles, and collect cubes and cube fragments to restore order to the universe.
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The Great Picture
Credit: Photo: Rob JohnsonThe Great Picture is a 32-by-111-foot (9.8 by 33.8 m) photograph on muslin taken in 2006 as part of the Legacy Project, a photographic compilation and record of the history of now-closed Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. It was taken by converting an old hangar into a pinhole camera.
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Ferrari F40
Credit: Photo: Will ainsworth (edited by Bob Castle)Selected picture 25
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Fantasy coffin
Credit: Coffin artist: Kudjoe Affutu; Photographer: Regula TschumiFantasy coffin built by Kudjoe Affutu, the main part of Saâdane Afif's exhibition Anthologie de l'humour noir in the Centre Pompidou.