Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cannon with gabions
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Sixteenth_Century_Cannon2.jpg/250px-Sixteenth_Century_Cannon2.jpg)
- 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 --DurovaCharge! 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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