Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Visual arts
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Develop an Art Manual of Style. Address issues like...
- Capitalization of art movements and art style name.
- A style guide at zeal.com suggests using a dictionary to determine capitalization. However, dictionaries vary on art movement/style capitalization. (See User:Sparkit/capitalization.) The Wikipedia Manual of Style does not touch on art movements and styles in particular, but implies that wikipedia style is to use lower case. Bringing us back again to using a dictionary. Thus, the final questions are; Which dictionary? What to do when dictionaries do not agree with one another?
- http://www.collegeart.org/caa/publications/AB/ABStyleGuide.html College Art Association style guide for Art Bulletin says,
- 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.
- How to add an image of art.
- What to include on the image page.
- What to include and how to format an art image's caption. (http://www.collegeart.org/caa/publications/AB/ABStyleGuide.html has guidelines.)
- Copyright concerns.
- Information resources.
- Image resources.
Interesting piece on writing an art history essay, http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/arthistory/paperpg/index.html