Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kullervo

Kullervo

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Original – Kullervo, a character in Finnish mythology and the Kalevala, cursing cows, turning them into bears so that he can have revenge on a woman who tormented him. Kullervo grew up thinking his family was dead, raised by his family's "killer", was sold into slavery, unknowingly had sexual relations with his sister (leading to her suicide), finds his family only to lose them again, kills the man who sold him into slavery, and then commits suicide.

Reason

Interesting depiction of a character in Finnish mythology (according to the article, the only one who was tragically irredeemable)

Articles in which this image appears

Kullervo +2

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Literary illustrations

Creator

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

• Support as nominator –  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:54, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - our first Finnish guy, or? Hafspajen (talk) 01:48, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Very tragic story. What painting style would you call this? CorinneSD (talk) 01:59, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• ^{National Romanticism with symbolism and a touch of realism.} Hafspajen (talk) 05:01, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support Iconic, and a fellow countryman of mine... ;) --Janke | Talk 11:59, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - WordSeventeen (talk) 23:35, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support --  - T H - ^{the fury of nature} _{given flesh} 09:00, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Jobas (talk) 16:54, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Akseli Gallen-Kallela - Kullervo Cursing - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

• Added image to Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings, as according to the description page this is a oil on canvas painting. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)