Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:DomenichinounicornPalFarnese.jpg

A young Lady and a Unicorn

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Original – A young Lady and a Unicorn. "In the 7th century, the scholar Isidore of Seville ... helped popularize the myth that would serve as a hallmark in European folklore for centuries to come: Catching a unicorn is impossible…unless you have access to a virgin woman.”

Reason

Domenico Zampieri (or Domenichino) (1581 –1641) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School, a rather talented one. This school flourished in Bologna, between the 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, and rivalled Florence and Rome as the center of painting in the Italian Baroque era. The painting depicts Giulia Farnese, mistress to Pope Alexander VI. Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) fell in love with Giulia and decided to make her his mistress. ... Well, so much for that Unicorn.

Articles in which this image appears

Unicorn, Domenichino, Palazzo Farnese Giulia Farnese, + 3

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology

Creator

Domenichino and Annibale Carracci

• Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 22:20, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support, for the EV in unicorns. Not sure it has much value in Quiffin. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:52, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - charming image, both main articles could do with some work but provide sufficient EV. SagaciousPhil - Chat 19:21, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - SchroCat (talk) 10:49, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - If the photo quality is good with the art experts, I think this one is great. HullIntegrity^\ talk / 01:59, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Lovely painting. CorinneSD (talk) 21:37, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Lovely painting. Never covered (talk) 21:04, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:DomenichinounicornPalFarnese.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:04, 28 March 2015 (UTC)