Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Empress Li, Wife of Emperor Zhenzong of Song

 
Original - Empress Li, wife of Emperor Zhenzong of Song (r. 997-1022 AD)
 
Just as a reference, here is a different upload of the same painting, although it is much darker and smaller (at 800 × 1,143 pixels)
Reason
The official Song Dynasty court portrait painting of the Chinese Empress Li, wife of Emperor Zhenzong of Song (r. 997-1022 AD), sitting at her throne and wearing her finest silks, a crown, and some very unique (or, dare I say, bizarre) ceremonial facial make-up; this image violates no FP criteria that I know of and is 1,755 × 2,589 pixels in size.
Articles this image appears in
Han Chinese clothing, Society of the Song Dynasty
Creator
Stout256
Excellent! This is technically not the first support I've ever gotten for a FPC, but the first one was eventually withdrawn from another nomination (due to stitching errors). I'm glad you liked the image! Cheers.--Pericles of AthensTalk 14:46, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Don't lose hope. Most FPC regulars probably have a majority of their FPC noms fail to be promoted. There's a learning curve. Your batch of nominations certainly have EV, but we're sticklers for the other technical stuff as well. Spikebrennan (talk) 18:45, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support another book scan, more visible halftone... like the other portrait down the page a bit, it's a really good subject and just needs half-decent repro to blow me away. The original work is pretty much life-size at 1.5m high, so instead I'm left longing for the wealth of missing detail. --mikaultalk 13:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That's understandable, but Google images apparently does not have anything better to offer than this nominated version here. Until someone takes a masterpiece photograph of this painting, this is perhaps the best image of it available online.--Pericles of AthensTalk 14:49, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. The scan just doesn't reproduce the level of detail of the original, and the halftoning also detracts. As Spikebrennan says, though, don't give up!. --ragesoss (talk) 15:30, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, apparently I'm not too good at judging these things. I'm afraid that anything I propose will just get swatted down! Especially these paintings; all of them seem to have at least one defect or drawback which is unacceptable to reviewers here.--Pericles of AthensTalk 15:53, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --wadester16 05:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]