Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein - Goethe in the Roman Campagna - Google Art Project.jpg

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Original – Tischbein portrays Goethe as an idealized, almost otherworldly person, as a man of great insight. He wears a large wide-brimmed hat, fashionable among German artists in Rome, and a creamy white traveller's duster.
Reason
A famous and much inonic depiction, much disputed, significant and appreciated painting of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is described in Goethe's work Italian Journey. It has acquired an important place in the history of art as a German icon of national painting. The painting had an indisputable role in shaping the world’s image of Goethe. The painting is considered as one of the highlights of the museum's collection.goethe-roman-campagna-1787/ staedelmuseum.de Used, Google file.
Articles in which this image appears
Goethe in the Roman Campagna, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Artist, Italian Journey, Occasional poetry, ‎ 1829, Culture of Germany, German language, Literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Städel, German new humanism, Philistinism, List of people from Frankfurt
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

Promoted File:Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein - Goethe in the Roman Campagna - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:38, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]