Murals and Sculpture, guideline [20180724]

[This guideline fits with a prior stylesheet. Use the current stylesheet and the website guideline for new documents, and for revamping the prior documents.]

page and image IDs for an artwork item

An artwork item's ID suitable for the website is formed from its original location, original date, and title delimited by underscores.

The filename for an artwork item page is the ID appended with ".html". A filename for an image is the ID appended with an underscore followed by its role: overview, detail, work (shorthand for "execution"), study; then followed by a hyphen and a number (typically two digits: 01) without prepended zeros.

When an artwork has been removed from its location and reinstalled at another location, images of the artwork at the new location begin with the original ID appended with an underscore followed by the first part of the location that is different, then the aforementioned remainder of role and number.

see Night Hula (MU 56)

artwork item page

An artwork item such as a mural, a portable fresco, a painting, or a sculpture is the main focus. Its page is the authorative source about it: descriptions, history, images, related materials. Other pages reference it (link to it) by using the artwork's title, perhaps with a summarized version of its biblio.

An artwork item page begins with the artwork biblio followed by lists of images recording overviews (full views), details (partial views), or its execution (creation or assembly) delimited by headers. Additional items related to its development might be termed as "studies" and are listed in their own section afterwards, each linked to its own artwork item page.

biblio for an artwork item

image lists

A list of images is the typical unordered list prepared with fragment-proxy classed anchors and fragment-emphasis classed elements for each list item. Each list item has an optional paragraph with an <img> element (its attributes filled with identifying information) with an optional photographer credit. Regradless of whether an image is available, there can be an optional paragraph with a description, but the artwork's title, if any, is a separate paragraph preceding it.

headers for an artwork item

The described headers each have a purpose, therefore they are independent of each other: any may exist without the others.

<h2>

For reinstalled artworks: the artwork title, location (only the significant difference), and artwork date for information or image lists of the artwork at a location.

<h3>

Categories of items (additional materials) related to the main item, f.e. drawings as studies.

<h4>

Categories of images (photographic recording) of an item, t.i. overview, details, execution. Unnecessary when only one category.

Note: Safari (10.0.3) wasn't handling ʻokina in small caps correctly (in the header elements), sometimes displayed as two unrelated characters. Firefox does fine. [CFgj] Also, the ʻokina remains too large.
Using lang="haw" doesn't seem to help any. See Relation of Man and Nature in Old Hawaiʻi for the workaround recorded here: ʻ

location pages

[…describe a location page; it is for a group of artwork items; probably subsume the "relocated items" section…]

relocated items

Original location as first statement for location. Each new location is an additional statement beginning with "Reinstalled" or "Removed" or "Location renamed", and then the the location, followed by a comma and date. See Night Hula (1961, MU 56).

Avoid "the" leading up to and within location.

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