WikiProject Visual arts, a sub-project of
WikiProject Arts, is a place for
Wikipedians to discuss issues and organize information about the
visual arts. Like any page on Wikipedia, all are welcome to edit and contribute to this
WikiProject.
Rather than try to force information to appear in a uniform way, this WikiProject presents guidelines to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. These recommendations for creating visual arts content are based on various Wikipedia
style guides and common practices for
writing good articles. Use your own judgment in applying these guidelines, along with other
Wikipedia guidelines, to compose articles and
be bold.
If you would like to help, see the
How to help section below and ask questions on the
talk page.
The project seeks to improve the quality of articles related to the visual arts. The main category that represents articles that fall within the scope of this project is
Category:Visual arts (
Category:Art has merged into this).
How you can help depends on your time, resources, and interest. Here are a variety of ideas for contributions ranging from simple to complex. Take a look at the
Open Tasks section of this page for more article-specific tasks.
If you'd like to help with any of the below and want assistance, post a query on the
talk page. Project members will be glad to help.
It is important to have an input into
Articles for deletion. There is now a special page for visual art articles, which needs to be maintained, updated and monitored. It can be found here:
WikiProject Deletion sorting/Visual arts. Articles need to be added manually: please add any AfD you want to draw attention to, and also put it on your watchlist.
External links to online galleries/images can also be helpful, especially when free images are not available for upload and
copyright violations might be an issue.
Larger tasks
Move art images to Wikicommons. Suggestion only. Move eligible (world-wide public domain) art images to Wikicommons
Increasing the representation of visual art outside the Western canon: a
task force page lists target articles for improvement or creation, as well as related resources
Development. Can we try and get
Arts and Crafts Movement at least up to B-Class? The article on this important and influential movement, which dominated the decorative arts in Britain from 1890–1915, should be a lot better than it is. I have added to it but I'd appreciate some collaborators.
Visual arts project
Add the project template {{
Visual arts}} to the talk pages of relevant articles that don't already have one.
Art Institute of Chicago released digital images
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: art works in public domain
[4], 600+ art books to download or view online for free
[5]
Getty Museum artworks: virtual library to download
[6]
New York Public Library: released artworks, images, books.
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Smithsonian Open Access: Artworks, images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. 3 million images and resources available for open source use as of late 2020 [1][8]
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User:Wil540_art - photography (1820-today), stone sculpture, and contemporary art
User: Ppt91 - Western modern art (19th-20th c.), Eastern European modern art, Socialist Realisms, history of photography
User:TheWiki93 - Teenage cartoonist who goes to high school every day. Interest in cartoons and comical strips.
User:Amandajm, all visual art, but particularly Renaissance
User:iopensa, focus on visual art in Africa (institutions, artists, art scene) and related to Africa (exhibitions, publications, scholars) –
contemporary African art.
User:warrenking interested in contemporary art in San Francisco and New York, especially artist-run initiatives, biographies, and recent history (90s-Present).
User:Carptrash Mostly American sculpture – but I want to talk about art stubs – or . . . ... To stub or not to stub? That is the question.
User:Freshacconci Contemporary art in general, and Canadian art and media and film art in particular, with an interest in Modern Art history (1850–1970) as well.
User:Cosmopolitancats Practising artist with particular interest in drawing and sketching and associated media – and the overall organisation of information.
User:Planetneutral I'd like to focus on better organization of this project; also lesser known Florentine painters
User:Platinumbuddha contemporary Australian, medieval, art theory, art historian biographies. Grammar/syntax corrections, bibliographies.
User:Ernst Stavro Blofeld I'll be trying to add every Hungarian painter and sculptor to wkipedia. I'll also be adding a few stubs on articles on European paintings – notably the works of Corot
User:Justizin Plan to cover accuracy, disputes, and improve sources for ancient to modern art history during four semesters, and to continue contributing.
User:Paula clare Ancient art, letter forms and signs; and abstract art from 1900 onwards.
User:Sara_USA All forms of visual, especially invention and innovation in visual art, and fine art
User:Jpbowen Art galleries/museums and their collections; individual artworks.
User:Kafka Liz Diverse interests, currently focusing on mediaeval manuscripts but also including Ancient, Early Christian, and Byzantine periods. Very interested in iconography and funerary art.
User:jlg4104 Early and middle 20th c. modernism. Sourcing. Editing for clarity.
User:TravisNygard Working on general improvements of, modern Western art—especially American, pre-Columbian art, the academic discipline, and methodology.
Edouard Manet - The Absinthe Drinker - Google Art Project
Edouard Manet - The Plum - National Gallery of Art
Edward Mitchell Bannister by Gustine L. Hurd
Egon Schiele - Portrait of Wally Neuzil - Google Art Project
Egyptian fellah woman (1872 painting)
El Beso (Pinacoteca de Brera, Milán, 1859)
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) - Laocoön - Google Art Project
El dos de mayo de 1808 en Madrid
Ellis Island hospital window mural (01897)
Emily Carr (1939) Odds and Ends
Entombment Michelangelo
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman ("Starting for the Hunt") MET DP146442
Eugène Grasset - A La Place Clichy
Extermination of Evil Tenkeisei
Fabritius-vink
Feszty Panorama
Fragonard, The Reader
Francesco Buoneri, called Cecco del Caravaggio - The Resurrection - Google Art Project
Francesco Solimena - Diana and Endymion - Google Art Project
Francisco Goya - Portrait of Ferdinand VII of Spain in his robes of state (1815) - Prado
Francisco Goya - Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
Francisco de Goya - Escena de Inquisición - Google Art Project
Frans Hals - Claes Duyst van Voorhout
Frans Hals - Wedding portrait of Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laan
Frans Hals, De magere compagnie
Frans Hals, Merrymakers at Shrovetide, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
František Kupka - Katedrála - Google Art Project
Gabrielé Castagnola - Love or Duty
Gauguin, Paul - Still Life with Profile of Laval - Google Art Project
Gavin Hamilton - Coriolanus Act V, Scene III edit2
Geertgen tot Sint Jans, The Nativity at Night, c 1490
George Catlin - Sha-có-pay, The Six, Chief of the Plains Ojibwa - Google Art Project
George Washington by John Trumbull (1780)
Gerard van Honthorst - Adoration of the Shepherds (1622)
Gertrude Käsebier by Adolf de Meyer
Giambattista Tiepolo - The Banquet of Cleopatra - Google Art Project
Gilbert Stuart - Catherine Brass Yates
Gilbert Stuart - George Washington - Google Art Project
Gilbert Stuart Williamstown Portrait of George Washington
Giorgione - Adoration of the Shepherds - National Gallery of Art
Giovanni Paolo Panini – Ancient Rome
Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Self Portrait - Google Art Project
Glasses 800 edit
Glory of Florentine Saints on the dome in San Lorenzo (Florence)
Gogh, Vincent van - Landscape at Saint-Rémy (Enclosed Field with Peasant) - Google Art Project
Goya - Desgracias acaecidas en el tendido de la plaza de Madrid, y muerte del alcalde de Torrejón
Grant Wood - American Gothic - Google Art Project
Gustav Klimt - Beech Grove I - Google Art Project
Gustav Klimt - Hope, II - Google Art Project
Gustave Doré - Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote - Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Plate 1 "A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination"
H. Piffard - The Thin Red Line - restoration
Hans Baldung Grien - Portrait of a Man - Google Art Project
Hans Holbein, the Younger, Around 1497-1543 - Portrait of Henry VIII of England - Google Art Project
Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - left hand screen
Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - right hand screen
Havana 1639b
Haydée, ou Le secret Act II - Philippe Chaperon
Head of Bhairava - MET DP307219
Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of Denali without labels
Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of North Cascades without labels
Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of Yellowstone without labels
Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of Yosemite without labels
Hendrick Averkamp A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle
Hendrik Voogd - Italian landscape with Umbrella Pines
Henri Gervex - A Session of the Painting Jury - Google Art Project
Henri Motte - La fiancée de Bélus (1885)
Henriette Mayer van den Bergh - Van Lerius
Henry Ossawa Tanner - The Young Sabot Maker - Google Art Project
Hieronymus Bosch - Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns) - Google Art Project
Holger Drachmann, fra Klæbels samling - Restoration
Il signor Tambourossini - Delaroche
Intercession of Charles Borromeo supported by the Virgin Mary - Detail Rottmayr Fresco - Karlskirche - Vienna
Ivan Shishkin - Рожь - Google Art Project
Ixion by Jusepe de Ribera (1632)
Jacques-Louis David - Equestrian portrait of Stanisław Kostka Potocki - Google Art Project
Jacques-Louis David - Oath of the Horatii - Google Art Project
Jacques-Louis David - The Coronation of Napoleon (1805-1807)
Jacques-Louis David - The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries - Google Art Project
James Gillray The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver.–Vide. Swift's Gulliver- Voyage to Brobdingnag The Metropolitan Museum of Art edit
Jan Matejko, Stańczyk
Jan Vermeer van Delft - Lady Standing at a Virginal - National Gallery, London
Jan Vermeer van Delft - The Glass of Wine - Google Art Project
Jan van Eyck - Diptych - WGA07587, left panel
Jan van Eyck - Diptych - WGA07587, right panel
Jan van Eyck - Kardinal Niccolò Albergati - Google Art Project
Jan van Eyck - Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati - Google Art Project
Jane Digby, Lady Ellenborough, by William Charles Ross
Jaroslava Mucha by Alfons Mucha
Jasper Francis Cropsey by Napoleon Sarony
Jean Augustin Daiwaille - Zelfportret
Jean Metzinger, 1912, Danseuse au café, Dancer in a café, oil on canvas, 146.1 x 114.3 cm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project
Jean-François Millet by Nadar, Metropolitan Museum copy
Jean-Honoré Fragonard - The Stolen Kiss
Johan Christian Claussen Dahl – View from Stalheim – Google Art Project
Johannes Vermeer - De Soldaat en het Lachende Meisje - Google Art Project
Johannes Vermeer - Gezicht op huizen in Delft, bekend als 'Het straatje' - Google Art Project
Johannes Vermeer, Allegory of the Catholic Faith, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
John Everett Millais - Mariana - Google Art Project
John Quidor - The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane - Google Art Project
John William Waterhouse - Echo and Narcissus - Google Art Project
Joseph Ducreux (French) - Self-Portrait, Yawning - Google Art Project
Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834 - 1942.647 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Jožef Tominc - Pietro Stanislao Parisi z družino
Julemotiv tegnet av Jenny Nystrøm (24207693358)
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Graziella, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kamal-ud-din Bihzad - Construction of the fort of Kharnaq
Kanayi Kunhiraman Image
Karl Brullov - The Last Day of Pompeii - Google Art Project
Karl Friedrich Schinkel - Schloß am Strom - Google Art Project
Kefermarkt Kirche Flügelaltar Anbetung 02
Kefermarkt Kirche Flügelaltar Geburt 02
Kefermarkt Kirche Flügelaltar Marientod 02
Kefermarkt Kirche Flügelaltar Verkündigung 02
Khalili Collections A Composite Imaginary View of Japan
KlimtDieJungfrau
Korenveld - s0146V1962 - Van Gogh Museum
L'Embarquement pour Cythere, by Antoine Watteau, from C2RMF retouched
La Bohémienne endormie
La Fuensanta, by Julio Romero de Torres
La familia de Carlos IV
Lady Dorothy Browne (née Mileham); Sir Thomas Browne by Joan Carlile
Lady with a Squirrel
Lady with an Ermine - Leonardo da Vinci - Google Art Project
Landscape with the Good Samaritan - Rembrandt
Lansdowne Herakles Getty Museum
Large Gautama Buddha statue in Buddha Park of Ravangla, Sikkim
Le Jardin de Nébamoun
Le Violon d'Ingres
Leighton-Stitching the Standard
Leonardo da Vinci - Ginevra de' Benci - Google Art Project
Leonardo da Vinci - Studies of the foetus in the womb
Leonardo da Vinci - Virgin and Child with St Anne C2RMF retouched
Lolotte and Werther by Eunice Pinney
Luigi Verardi after Dominico Ferri - Vincenzo Bellini - Théatre Royal Italien. Salle d'armes dans l'Opéra I Puritani
Líneas de Nazca, Nazca, Perú, 2015-07-29, DD 49
Madonna Haller
Maison devant la Sainte-Victoire près de Gardanne, par Paul Cézanne, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Marc, Franz - Blue Horse I - Google Art Project
Margareta van Eyck
Marie-Gabrielle Capet - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project
Marriage A-la-Mode 1, The Marriage Settlement - William Hogarth
Marriage A-la-Mode 2, The Tête à Tête - William Hogarth
Marriage A-la-Mode 3, The Inspection - William Hogarth
Marriage A-la-Mode 4, The Toilette - William Hogarth
Marriage A-la-Mode 5, The Bagnio - William Hogarth
Marriage A-la-Mode 6, The Lady's Death - William Hogarth
Mary Cassatt - The Child's Bath - Google Art Project
Mary Cassatt - Under the Horse-Chestnut Tree - Google Art Project
Masaccio. Madonna and Child. 1426. National Gallery, London
Mattie Edwards Hewitt - half-length photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston
Maurycy Gottlieb - Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur
Mehoffer self-portrait (1897)
Meisje met de parel
Michael Ancher portrætfoto 2 - Restoration
Michelangelo Buonarroti - The Torment of Saint Anthony - Google Art Project
Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio - Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness - Google Art Project