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(a) artist (in case not automatically completed by the creator template; note that some creator templates do not automatically include an artist cat. due to noinclude of that category)
(b) institution, location and Category:Paintings by artist by museum / [[:Category:Paintings by <name of artist> by museum]], [[:Category:Paintings in the <name of museum> by artist]]
(c) Year/decade/century of the production (e.g. 1520s frescos, if void, or this information may be retrieved in the future, set the maintenance category:Paintings not categorised by year and lower). It is an unsolved problem how to categorize artwork which states "produced c. 1847", "produced between 1612 and 1614", "produced c. 1720s" or "produced between 1575 and 1600". A temporary solution is to categorize such time ranges as narrow as necessary and as widely as possible:
Intentional hierarchy interferences (category names sometimes include "...(flat category)")
There is no consolidation
(a) if flat categories should exist at all unsolved (or limited to the visual arts)
(b) which categories should be considered to be a flat category unsolved
Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the Kunsthistorisches Museum (39 F)
Paintings by Lucas Cranach in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (18 F)
Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the National Museum in Warsaw (5 F)
categories related to piece of art:
Altars by Lucas Cranach the Elder (3 C, 7 F)
categories related to series:
Christ blessing the Children by Lucas Cranach the Elder (3 F)
Paintings of Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1 K, 52 D)
Paintings of the Judgement of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder (18 D)
Judith and Holofernes by Lucas Cranach (I) (1 K, 2 D)
Paintings of Judith with the head of Holofernes by Lucas Cranach the Elder (15 D)
Last Judgement by Lucas Cranach the Elder (5 F)
Law and Grace by Lucas Cranach the Elder (9 F)
Lot and his daughters by Lucas Cranach the Elder (6 F)
Lucretia by Lucas Cranach the Elder (14 F)
Martin Luther by Cranach (39 F)
Madonna and Child by Lucas Cranach the Elder (3 C, 44 F)
Philipp Melanchthon by Lucas Cranach the Elder (7 F)
categories related to clothing:
Paintings by Lucas Cranach d. Ä. with fur (2 C, 109 F)
categories related to type:
Portraits by Lucas Cranach (I) (3 C, 168 F)
categories related to genre:
Hunting scenes by Lucas Cranach (I) (12 F)
The Three Graces by Lucas Cranach (I) (1 C, 5 F)
Venuses by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1 C, 6 F)
Venus and Cupid by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1 C, 11 F)
category related to detail/fragments
Details could be also be one part of a polyptych or of the predella as well as further details. If there is a category by title of the painting, files of details should be kept also in this main category for visualization of the details in the painting, a sort key (see below) to sort the details from left to right is very helpful for orientation within the details.
Details of paintings by Lucas Cranach d. Ä. (16 F)
plus 325 files directly under the painter categ.; no gallery page
Decide (a) Meta discussion or (b) WP:ARTS discussion and agreement
Await responses to an experimental members of Category:Motifs by painters to minimize/avoid misunderstandings with individual artwork categories of a painter. Example: Members of Category:Judgement of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder do not indicate, that "Category:Judgement of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder" is a motif category of a painter (with possible scattered locations of galleries), not a single artwork. Latest speedy DEL in this sector: 2013-02-09T01:51:05 INeverCry deleted page Category:Judgement of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder (motif) (duplicate of Category:Judgement of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder)
While doing sorting work, editors must check what "Category:Judgement of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder" means. Actually, it covers several artwork with the same motif (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum etc.). In order to make a future policy standarized, there should be dogmatic approach: Categories must be as specific as possible, e.g. include further information, such as "... (motif)" or "... (MMA)".