---
id: "art_medium"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["media", "common"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 65
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/art_medium"
---

# Art medium (technique and material of an artwork) (`art_medium`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Technique and materials with which a work of art or a museum object is made, written as free text, such as oil on canvas, watercolour on paper, photograph or bronze. Museum catalogues keep it in a field named technique, medium or material. The values form a small vocabulary that is repeated in many spellings and word orders (oil on canvas, canvas, oil), so it has no regular expression.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Media and entertainment (media), Common (common)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Examples

- `oil on canvas`
- `Холст, масло` — Russian catalogues often name the support first
- `watercolour on paper`
- `taxidermy` — natural history collections

## Mappings

- schema_org: `artMedium`

## Translations

- ru: Техника и материал

## Sources

- schema.org: <https://schema.org/artMedium>

## Quality

Score 65/100. Missing: regexp, negative example, detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/art_medium.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/media/art_medium.yaml>