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The Pool of Bethesda edit

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Original – The Pool of Bethesda by Robert Bateman, 1877. In the fifth chapter of the Gospel of John the text is mentioning a pool in Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, that was associated with healing. According John, an angel come by and touched the water and the first man who was bathing in the pool became free from all illnesses. Until the 19th century, there was no evidence outside of John’s Gospel for the existence of this pool; but archaeologists discovered the remains of a pool fitting the description

Reason: English artist Robert Bateman's " key painting", as the article states, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1878. Bateman was architect and painter and also a horticultural designer.
Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of invalid folk — blind, halt, withered — waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water. Whosoever then first stepped in, after the troubling of the water, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Articles in which this image appears: Robert Bateman (artist), Pool of Bethesda

FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Robert Bateman

Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 00:05, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Nice. Good EV at Pool of Bethesda too. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:06, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Interesting. Brandmeister^talk 09:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Very nice; good EV. Seems to be an artist that there wasn't an awful lot known about. SagaciousPhil - Chat 10:55, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support A bit cracks, but not much influence to the whole. Exploringlife (talk) 20:13, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral The cracks full of the sky inside the doorframe when checking carefully. Exploringlife (talk) 20:38, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- If a 125+ year-old oil painting on canvas had no cracks, I would be suspicious of its authenticity, IMO.--Godot13 (talk) 21:37, 24 August 2015 (UTC) [reply]
  - Can't restore? Exploringlife (talk) 21:59, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Exploringlife- If you restore the image of a unique art work, then the image is no longer an accurate (encyclopedic) representation of that work... Cracks, chips, even damage are all important to document in well-known works of art, in my opinion.--Godot13 (talk) 23:01, 24 August 2015 (UTC) [reply]
Support Good EV, nice image.--Godot13 (talk) 20:29, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Good to me. DreamSparrow ^Chat 04:18, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support I agree. --Tremonist (talk) 12:44, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Jobas (talk) 09:35, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Yann (talk) 22:40, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Robert Bateman - The Pool of Bethesda - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:54, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]