YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own

The YourPaintings Website:

Strategies for cataloguing oil paintings for web users

Aimee BlackledgeSeptember 2009

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own

• Introduction to the YourPaintings website

• Data enhancement and the online user

• Issues for cataloguing oil paintings

• What functions could a user-interface offer?

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own

Online Users:online users as museum visitors

• Browsers

• Followers

• Searchers

• Researchers

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnDevelopment of

Visitor Engagement

Browsers Followers

Followers Searchers

Searchers Researchers

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnData Enhancement

Artist nameDate of birth-date of deathTitleDate of executionMediumDimensionsCollection nameCollection Accession Number+ Period+ Artistic style or movement+ Subject matter

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnHigh Level Subject Categories

– people

– places

– natural world

– society

– religion & faith

– literature & mythology

– objects

– historical events

– activities

– abstract forms

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnSubject Facets and Categories

authorities

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own

• Copies

• Function

• Texture

• Scale

• Subject Matter

Cataloguing oil paintings:Challenges for cataloguers and users

Collins, William, The Snyders Family (after Anthony Van Dyck). Oil on board, 27.1 x 21.9 cm.

Anthony Van Dyck, Family Portrait (possibly Jan Wildens and Family), 1621. The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnCopies

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnFunction

Henry Scott Tuke, The Message, 1890. Oil on canvas, 100x 89.5 cm., Falmouth Art Gallery.

Henry Scott Tuke, Study for The Message (Mrs Fouracre), 1890. Oil on canvas, 28 x 20 cm., Falmouth Art Gallery.

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Textures

Michael Finn, Untitled, 1991. Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 91.5 cm., Falmouth Art Gallery.

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnPainting Effects

John Marton, The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Oil on canvas, 119 x 170 cm. Scarborough Museums and Art Gallery.

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Cranach, Lucas the elder (1472–1553)Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (1532). Courtesy of Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries.

Scale

YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnSubject matter

Delacroix, Eugène (attributed to), 1798-1863, Madame Simon. Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 48.2.

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