Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts/Art Manual of Style

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This is a draft, or a proposal or working notes or suggestions or whatever. It is not policy. Please add what you know or want to know about working with visual arts articles

Contents

[edit] External resources for writing about art

[edit] Helpful wikipedia links


[edit] When and how to use infoboxes, and what to avoid.

[edit] Images of art

  • Before you upload an image of art, know the following:
    • The source of the image. Usually the URL from which you downloaded it.
    • Who is the artist(s)?
    • The name of the piece?
    • When was the piece completed?
    • What are its dimensions?
    • What is the medium (oil and canvas/marble/mixed media...)?
    • Where is it displayed?
    • Copyright status - Is it copyrighted? By whom? If it is copyrighted and not by yourself, prepare a fair use statement.
  • Upload the image.
    • Include all of the above information when uploading or add it to the image page after you've uploaded the file.
    • Using the {{Image information art}} template for the above information formats the data easily.
  • Add the image to an article.

[edit] Example

Enter:

[[Image:Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 054.jpg|thumb|[[Francisco Goya]]. 
''Charles IV of Spain and His Family''. 1800-1801. 
280 × 336 cm. Oil on canvas. [[Museo del Prado]], [[Madrid]].]]

Result:

Francisco Goya. Charles IV of Spain and His Family. 1800-1801. 280 × 336 cm. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Francisco Goya. Charles IV of Spain and His Family. 1800-1801. 280 × 336 cm. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid.


[edit] Available templates


Galleries - what's the visual arts project take on galleries?

[edit] Image resources

[edit] Useful external resources

[edit] Notes

Capitalizing the names of art movements

In general, sharply delimited period titles are capitalized, whereas large periods and terms applicable to several periods are not: e.g., Archaic, Baroque, Early and High Renaissance, Early Christian, Gothic, Greek Classicism of the fifth century (otherwise, classicism), Imperial, Impressionism, Islamic, Mannerist, Middle Ages, Neoclassicism for the late-eighteenth-century movement (otherwise, neoclassicism), Post-Impressionism, Pre-Columbian, Rococo, Roman, Romanesque, Romantic period, Xth Dynasty, antique, antiquity, classicism (see above), medieval, modern, neoclassicism (see above), postmodern, prehistoric, quattrocento.