Wiki143:Featured picture candidates/Cannon with gabions

Original - Cannon with gabions, from a late sixteenth century illustration.

Reason: When illustrating historical concepts it's informative to have illustrations from that period. This comes from an engineering treatise published in 1588. Restored version of File:Sixteenth Century Cannon.jpg.
Articles this image appears in: Cannon, Siege#Age_of_gunpowder, Gabion
Creator: Agostino Ramelli

Support as nominator --Durova^Charge! 03:10, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Support for the encyclopedic value. M.K. (talk) 13:00, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
support, should the darks be made a bit darker? One wonders how they could get the perspective so off. de Bivort 18:44, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
- You've never seen one of my drawings then...--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 00:25, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Support Good technicals and enc value.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 00:25, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Support Excellent restoration work, and this is from before perspective was really understood, (at least, widely). Most art from this period appears like this - basically, the mind is very good at rotating objects, so that we can identify, say, a chair from any angle - but an artist needs to turn that automatic ability off in order to get perspective right. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 17:57, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Support I like the quality and EV. Fletcher (talk) 00:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Support Good encyclopedic value. A302b (talk) 09:39, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Sixteenth Century Cannon2.jpg --Muhammad(talk) 06:11, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

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