Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fe

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Original – Pedro Berruguete's depiction of Saint Dominic presiding over an Auto-da-fé. Image is from the sacristy of the Santo Tomás church in Ávila.

Reason: High quality scan, contemporary depiction of a historical punishment, notable artist
Articles in which this image appears: Auto-da-fé (lead image), Inquisition, Saint Dominic, +5
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
Creator: Pedro Berruguete

Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:06, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The artistic value is there, but the image may be historically inaccurate, see Saint Dominic: the grace of the word and Inquisition from Its Establishment to the Great Schism, p. 82. Brandmeister^talk 17:13, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

comment -- i am just feeling my way around here; hope you don't mind lengthy commentary. i can't access your first reference, and the second one doesn't impress me much; it sounds very defensive and offers no evidence. according to the prado's portuguese website (the link to the painting itself on Auto-da-fé is broken), yes, the painter has taken all sorts of liberties in order to convey the aspects of an auto-da-fé, but behaviour as well as clothing is acknowledged to be representative of the time. does it matter whether that was really st dominic presiding at this particular auto-da-fé? i mean, of course in an absolute sense it does, but isn't what we'd expect from any painting of the time a general feeling of authenticity rather than cold, hard facts only? the article is about auto-da-fé, not about st dominic, and there is a note under the image that points out that it might not be accurate. and in the article about st. dominic there is a paragraph right next to it on how his involvement has been disputed. i really like the image educationally; it's very detailed; much better than the other ones (it certainly got me to read a lot about the inquisition just now). piranha (talk) 08:57, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:04, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]