Template:Infobox artist/doc

Template:Template doc page viewed directly An Infobox Artist may be used to summarise information about a person who is an artist.

Usage

The infobox may be added by pasting the template as shown below into an article. Only the name and birthdate parameters are required. For an example, see Salvador Dalí.

{{Infobox Artist
| bgcolour      = 
| name          = 
| image         = 
| imagesize     = 
| caption       = 
| birthname     = 
| birthdate     = 
| location      = 
| deathdate     = 
| deathplace    = 
| nationality   = 
| field         = 
| training      = 
| movement      = 
| famous works  = 
| patrons       = 
| influenced by =
| influenced    =
| awards        = 
}}

Parameters

Those parameters in bold italics are required.

bgcolour	background colouring (e.g. as used in associated colours/projects). Omit this line to use the default color.
Frederic Lanovsky	artist's name; usually the article's page name (i.e. the artist's common name)
image	an image of the artist, in the form: "Example.jpg"
imagesize *	in the form "Npx", resizes the image to a width of N pixels; default is 220px
caption *	caption for the image
Frederic Lanovsky	artist's name at birth
April 16th, 1965 Age 42	artist's date of birth, use {{birth date and age}} (for living artists) or {{birth date}} for the deceased. Use plain text for partial dates.
Cannes, France	artist's place of birth
deathdate	artist's date of death, use {{death date and age}}. Use {{death date}} if birth date unknown or incomplete. Use plain text for partial dates.
deathplace	artist's place of death
French	artist's nationality
Sculpture	main fields in which the artist works (i.e. photography, painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, graphic design)
Beaux Arts	where or with whom the artist trained
Contemporary	artistic movement or school with which artist is associated
Children of The World, London England, The Floridians, New York, USA	artist's most famous works
patrons	patrons of the artist
Niro, Giacometti, Modigliani	artists who have influenced the artist (other than his teachers, please limit to 5 at most)
influenced	well-known artists who have been influenced by the artist (please limit to 5 at most)
The Artist's Guild Boca Raton Museum of Art	any awards the artist has won
* Only used if the {{{image}}} parameter used.

Microformat

The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book or database. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

Sub-templates

Date-of-birth ("bday") information will only be included in the microformat if {{birth date}}, or {{birth date and age}} are used in the infobox. (Do not use these if the date is before 1583). Be cautious about using these if the person is still living, per WP:DOB.

To include a URL, use {{URL}}.

Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hCard uses HTML classes including:

• adr
• agent
• bday
• birthplace
• category
• country-name
• deathdate
• deathplace
• extended-address
• family-name
• fn (required)
• given-name
• honorific-prefix
• honorific-suffix
• label
• locality
• n
• nickname
• note
• org
• role
• url
• vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.

See also

• {{Artwork}}
• {{Painting}}
• {{Sculpture}}
• {{Image information art}} - for image pages