Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Amari Agia Anna Fresco 02.JPG

File:Amari Agia Anna Fresco 02.JPG, featured edit

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Info Byzantine fresco in the little church of Agia Anna (Αγία Άννα), Amari Valley, Crete. The frescoes are dated 1225 and the oldest dated frescoes in Crete. All by me. --Uoaei1 (talk) 17:01, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 17:01, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Beautiful (though sadly damaged), important fresco, obvious educational value. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:21, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice to have something like this digitized so well. Daniel Case (talk) 20:22, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:55, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 13:12, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Hubertl 13:26, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 17:54, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 19:39, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Question Yes, but who is that saint ?--Jebulon (talk) 22:17, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Andrew of Crete, jugding from his vestment and the fact that in the whole fresco says Α(γιος) ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ (saint Andrew). PS: Oldest dated, maybe, however not the oldest in Crete. --C messier (talk) 00:14, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. Minoan frescos are older !--Jebulon (talk) 15:52, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
OpposeNice details, but the crop is unfortunate IMO.--Jebulon (talk) 22:30, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Good digitalisation, yet the fresco is neither well preserved (would you support an equally damaged painting?), nor it is (IMHO and I'm not the only) of high artistic merit, it isn't even the oldest preserved byzantine fresco in Crete (the chapel of Agios Nikolaos in Agios Nikolaos has frescoes with aniconic motifs that date from the iconoclast, 400 years before or more). --C messier (talk) 12:01, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For whatever it's worth, I consider at least what we're seeing to be of artistic merit, and yes, I surely would support a good picture of a damaged easel painting if it were a good and historically important work. In some cases, such photos are actually really important, because they're the "before" photos, with the "after" photos having been overcleaned by restorers, so if at a future time, they want to restore some of the varnish and pigment they shouldn't have removed, referring to the "before" picture could be invaluable. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:02, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 8 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 21:26, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Non-photographic_media#Religion