Pictures

By medium

Every material and technique the museums' medium lines name, matched word for word to the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus. A medium line is a sentence, "Oil on canvas", and each term in it is one row here, so a picture stands under both oil paint and canvas. The sentence itself stays on the record. Where a museum's word is shorthand for a concept the word alone does not name, a named editor has written down what it means and the match runs on that: "oil" is read as oil paint and "black ink" as ink, because AAT files those exact words under a greasy substance and a colour. Every group page names that editor and the day.

543 media · 7,735 of 11,111 works naming a medium reach one · AAT ids read from Getty, 2026-09-09

20 of 442 ids checked against the materials Wikidata records named a different concept (4.5%), read 2026-09-08