Idioms
The Linked Art .NET library provides fluent helpers, which can save on boilerplate code. This page links to particularly useful library idioms. Every example also has a Plain C# form that doesn't use the fluent helpers, just regular property assignment and construction. You can mix and match styles as needed.
Metatype classification 69 Statement in one call 2 Role shortcuts 52 Configured in place 2 Dimensions and physical description 10 Terms outside the registry 47
Metatype classification
The second argument classifies the first, not the object: WithClassifiedAs(Aat.Description, Aat.Statement) says this is a Description, and Description is a kind of Statement. The Plain C# form shows the nesting.
| Example | Section | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
activity/exha/1 |
Exhibitions | Manet and Modern Beauty at the Getty, October 2019 to January 2020, was carried out by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and influenced by the idea behind the exhibition. |
event/operation_nightwatch/1 |
Conservation Activity | Operation Night Watch is a conservation and research project about The Night Watch |
object/bust/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | The sculpture "Bust of a Man" was created by Francis Hardwood using the sculpting technique. |
object/catalog/1 |
Objects: Aboutness | A copy of the exhibition catalog for the "Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European and American Painting 1880-1906", at which Manet's "Spring" (from the Getty) and Cezanne's "Houses in Provence" (from the National Gallery) were exhibited, shows both works and carries its own text. |
object/ccp/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | A print at the Yale Center for British Art, Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, made from a specific copper plate held at the Yale University Art Gallery. |
object/forum/1 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | The watercolor painting "Forum Romanum" was possibly produced by Salomon Corrodi |
object/gradualpage/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | The collection item is a page from a gradual (manuscript) by the Master of the Libro dei Notai. Source |
object/harpers/1 |
Objects: Aboutness | "Harper's January" at the Yale University Art Gallery is a print by Edward Penfield that has both significant text and visual content. As there is visual content which is not text, but all text is necessarily visual, the textual content is part_of the visual content. |
object/kellerdana/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | In 1964, Deane Keller created a copy of Daniel Huntington's portrait of James Dwight Dana, from 1858. |
object/lepeintre/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | The painting "Le Peintre" by Picasso was destroyed (in a plane crash) on September 2nd, 1998 at about 10:30pm. Source |
object/lepeintre/2 |
Object Production and Destruction | Le Peintre was destroyed because of the plane crashing. (Which also would have caused the destruction of the plane, the death of the crew, passengers and many other consequences) |
object/nightwatch/10 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The Night Watch is primarily a brown color (B35A1F), which is categorized as being brown (aat:300127490) |
object/nightwatch/11 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The Night Watch is a landscape format painting, as it is wider than it is high. |
object/nightwatch/12 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The Night Watch is made of oil paint and canvas. |
object/nightwatch/13 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The Night Watch is "oil on canvas". |
object/nightwatch/14 |
Objects: Provenance | The Night Watch is owned by the City of Amsterdam, and on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum. |
object/nightwatch/15 |
Objects: Rights Information | The Night Watch is on loan to the Rijksmuseum from the City of Amsterdam. |
object/nightwatch/16 |
Collections and Sets | |
object/nightwatch/17 |
Objects: Provenance | The Night Watch is also (entirely hypothetically) loaned to the Getty Museum. |
object/nightwatch/18 |
Objects: Aboutness | The Night Watch has a signature statement: |
object/nightwatch/25 |
Conservation Activity | The Rijksmuseum checked the condition of The Night Watch, at the beginning of the project "Operation Night Watch" |
object/nightwatch/26 |
Conservation Activity | Minor conservation improvements were made to The Night Watch. |
object/nightwatch/4 |
Basic Patterns | Having only a textual description of the materials in English, the content "Oil on Canvas" is recorded as referring to the painting as a "materials" (aat:300435429) statement: |
object/nightwatch/42 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
object/nightwatch/44 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
object/nightwatch/45 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
object/nightwatch/48 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
object/nightwatch/57 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | The Night Watch is related to another object in the Rijksmuseum collection "Nachtwacht", but the relationship is not captured specifically. |
object/nightwatch/6 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The Night Watch is 379.5 cm high, by 453.5 cm wide. |
object/nightwatch/7 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The dimensions, including weight, of the Night Watch, described in a human-readable text. |
object/nightwatch/70 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | The description of The Night Watch was generated by an AI at a particular point in time, and is licensed as CC-BY. |
object/nightwatch/8 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The Night Watch once more, described with human readable labels on each dimension. |
object/nightwatch/9 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The measurement of the Night Watch was carried out by the "Operation Night Watch" team, during "Operation Night Watch" |
object/nightwatch/support |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The support part of the Night Watch is made of canvas, and part of the Night Watch. |
object/okeeffe-gok/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | Copies of a photograph, taken by Alfred Stieglitz of Georgia O'Keeffe, are printed from the same negative at different times and now owned by different organizations: Yale University Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum |
object/okeeffe-yuag/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | |
object/run/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | A painted textile called "RÜN", where the linen was hand-woven by Sarah Parke and then painted by Mark Barrow. |
object/spring/10 |
Digital Integration | Jeanne has a IIIF Presentation API Manifest. |
object/spring/11 |
Digital Integration | The image of Jeanne is also available via a IIIF Image API service. |
object/spring/12 |
Exhibitions | |
object/spring/13 |
Collections and Sets | |
object/spring/20 |
Auctions | |
object/spring/21 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | It is asserted in 2015 that "Spring" has a material of canvas. |
object/spring/29 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | Spring has "Framed [Outer Dim]" and "Unframed" dimensions. The "Unframed" height and width are 74 and 51.5cm. |
object/spring/31 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | Spring was exhibited at the National Gallery of Art's exhibition "Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European and American Painting" in 1980, and was assigned a exhibition specific identifier (called a "dexid"). |
object/spring/5 |
Objects: Aboutness | Spring by Manet has a description, explaining the object and its image. |
object/spring/9 |
Digital Integration | There is a home page for Jeanne in the Getty collections. |
object/spring/back |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | On the back of Manet's "Spring" is an inscription "11505F". |
object/spring/support |
Basic Patterns | The canvas support is part of the overall painting of Spring. |
object/washday/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | The painting "Wash Day" was intentionally created in the manner of Winslow Homer. |
object/yiadom-boakye/1 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | The Kehinde Wiley painting "Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite" is jointly owned by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. Both organizations have assigned their own accession numbers to the painting, and both are correct simultaneously. |
object/yul_10801219/1 |
Texts and Documents | Yale University Library holds a copy of Koot's book about The Night Watch. |
person/rembrandt/31 |
Actors: People and Organizations | Rembrandt was an artist. |
person/rembrandt/32 |
Actors: People and Organizations | Rembrandt was male. |
person/rembrandt/43 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
person/rembrandt/8 |
Actors: People and Organizations | Rembrandt with a biography statement. |
person/wiley/1 |
Actors: People and Organizations | Kehinde Wiley is African-American. |
place/amsterdam/1 |
Places | There is a city called Amsterdam in the Netherlands. |
set/exhset/1 |
Collections and Sets | The set of objects in an exhibition. |
set/exhset/2 |
Collections and Sets | The objects exhibited were typically (but not exclusively) paintings by Manet. |
text/catalog_24477/1 |
Auctions | |
text/koot_nightwatch/2 |
Texts and Documents | The authorship and publication of the text. |
text/koot_nightwatch/3 |
Texts and Documents | Koot's book is about The Night Watch. |
text/koot_nightwatch_ch1/1 |
Texts and Documents | |
text/koot_nightwatch_ch1/2 |
Texts and Documents | The introduction chapter to Koot's book is 10 pages long. |
visual/harpers/1 |
Objects: Aboutness | |
visual/nightwatch/1 |
Objects: Rights Information | The visual content of the Night Watch is in the Public Domain. |
visual/nightwatch/40 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
visual/spring/3 |
Objects: Aboutness | Manet's Spring is in an impressionist style. |
Statement in one call
WithStatement creates the LinguisticObject, classifies it as the given type and as Brief Text, and adds it under referred_to_by.
| Example | Section | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
provenance/coffin_promise/1 |
Promised Activities | Thomas Jaffe has promised to give the 19th Century Indo-Pacific Coffin to Yale University Art Gallery. |
provenance/nuveen_commission/1 |
Promised Activities | The "Nuveen Painting" by Jim Dine was commissioned by Richard Franke in 1985. |
Role shortcuts
AsPrimaryName, AsAccessionNumber and AsSystemAssignedNumber each add a single classification, with the AAT terms Primary Name, Accession Number and System Number.
| Example | Section | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
activity/exha/1 |
Exhibitions | Manet and Modern Beauty at the Getty, October 2019 to January 2020, was carried out by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and influenced by the idea behind the exhibition. |
activity/exhb/1 |
Exhibitions | The Art Institute of Chicago exhibited Manet and Modern Beauty in Chicago with a specific set of objects, and is part of the larger multi-venue exhibition. |
concept/exhidea/1 |
Exhibitions | The idea (or abstract work) for the Manet and Modern Beauty exhibition is about Manet and Beauty. |
concept/exhidea/2 |
Exhibitions | The conceptualization of the "Manet and Modern Beauty" exhibition was influenced by the Manet and his work. |
concept/painting/2 |
Concepts | |
event/19c/1 |
Temporal Context: Periods, Events and Activities | The 19th Century is a period that spans from 1800 through the end of 1899. |
event/christies_24477/1 |
Auctions | An auction event takes place on November 5th, 2014 at the New York premises of Christie's. |
event/christies_24477_16/1 |
Auctions | Lot 16 was auctioned as part of the auction above. |
event/early_roman/1 |
Temporal Context: Periods, Events and Activities | The Early Roman Empire period, from 31 BCE through 193 CE, is part of the Roman Empire period. |
event/exhab/1 |
Exhibitions | |
event/operation_nightwatch/1 |
Conservation Activity | Operation Night Watch is a conservation and research project about The Night Watch |
event/vesuvius/1 |
Temporal Context: Periods, Events and Activities | Vesuvius erupts on August 24th, 79 CE. |
event/vesuvius/2 |
Temporal Context: Periods, Events and Activities | |
group/14thc_italian/1 |
Collections and Sets | The prototypical member of the "14th Century Italians" group was a person born between 1300 and 1400 in Italy. |
object/chess/1 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | "Vessel with miniature chess set" by Michael Mode consists of 36 parts (the 32 pieces, the board, a lid, and two other parts) |
object/coppa/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | The Coppa Amatoria was created by an unidentified artist or artists from Italy. |
object/forum/1 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | The watercolor painting "Forum Romanum" was possibly produced by Salomon Corrodi |
object/letter/1 |
Archives | A letter between Alfred Stieglitz and Bertha Obermeyer, dated 1920 is part of the "Stieglitz Family Letters" sub-series, which is part of "Series I: Alfred Stieglitz Correspondence" (which is part of the "Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O'Keeffe Archive" at Yale University) |
object/letter/2 |
Collections and Sets | The Obermeyer letter described in the archives use case should sort as "000001" within the Stieglitz Family Letters set. |
object/letter/3 |
Archives | |
object/nightwatch/1 |
Basic Patterns | The primary name for "The Night Watch" is "The Night Watch" in English, and "De Nachtwacht" in Dutch: |
object/nightwatch/16 |
Collections and Sets | |
object/nightwatch/2 |
Basic Patterns | The accession number identifier for "The Night Watch" is "SK-C-5": |
object/nightwatch/41 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
object/nightwatch/57 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | The Night Watch is related to another object in the Rijksmuseum collection "Nachtwacht", but the relationship is not captured specifically. |
object/nuveen/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | The production of the Nuveen Painting was caused by its commissioning. |
object/okeeffe-gok/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | Copies of a photograph, taken by Alfred Stieglitz of Georgia O'Keeffe, are printed from the same negative at different times and now owned by different organizations: Yale University Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum |
object/okeeffe-yuag/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | |
object/pompeii-buildings/1 |
Temporal Context: Periods, Events and Activities | |
object/pompeii_statue/1 |
Temporal Context: Periods, Events and Activities | A statue in Pompeii must have been created before the eruption of Vesuvius. |
object/spring/20 |
Auctions | |
object/spring/31 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | Spring was exhibited at the National Gallery of Art's exhibition "Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European and American Painting" in 1980, and was assigned a exhibition specific identifier (called a "dexid"). |
object/washday/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | The painting "Wash Day" was intentionally created in the manner of Winslow Homer. |
object/yiadom-boakye/1 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | The Kehinde Wiley painting "Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite" is jointly owned by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. Both organizations have assigned their own accession numbers to the painting, and both are correct simultaneously. |
object/yul_10801219/1 |
Texts and Documents | Yale University Library holds a copy of Koot's book about The Night Watch. |
person/bol/1 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | Ferdinand Bol was a student of Rembrandt. |
person/rembrandt/3 |
Actors: People and Organizations | Rembrandt's name is Rembrandt Harmenzoon van Rijn |
person/rembrandt/4 |
Actors: People and Organizations | Rembrandt's name is Rembrandt / Harmenzoon / van Rijn |
person/rembrandt/41 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
provenance/durand_payne/1 |
Object Acquisition and Loan | Oliver Payne acquired Spring from the Durand-Ruel Gallery in New York in 1909 |
provenance/manet_proust/1 |
Object Provenance | Édouard Manet sold his painting, Jeanne, to Antonin Proust in 1883 for 3,000 francs. |
set/24477_16_objects/1 |
Auctions | Lot 16 consists of a single painting, Spring. |
set/archive_asc/1 |
Archives | |
set/archive_sfl/1 |
Archives | |
set/archive_sfl/2 |
Archives | The Stieglitz Family Letters set has its members in Box 55. |
set/exhset/1 |
Collections and Sets | The set of objects in an exhibition. |
set/rijks_objects/1 |
Collections and Sets | The full collection of the Rijksmuseum. |
set/rijks_paintings/1 |
Collections and Sets | |
text/catalog_24477/1 |
Auctions | |
text/koot_nightwatch/1 |
Texts and Documents | The textual content of Koot's work. |
text/koot_nightwatch_ch1/1 |
Texts and Documents | |
text/koot_nightwatch_ch1/2 |
Texts and Documents | The introduction chapter to Koot's book is 10 pages long. |
Configured in place
A lambda configures the nested object as it is created, so a name, an identifier or a production is built where it is attached instead of in a separate variable.
| Example | Section | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
object/nightwatch/42 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
object/nightwatch/70 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | The description of The Night Watch was generated by an AI at a particular point in time, and is licensed as CC-BY. |
Dimensions and physical description
Each helper builds a Dimension with its AAT type, value and unit, or a classification with its metatype: height, width, colour, shape, page count, component count, file size, duration in days.
| Example | Section | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
digital/operation_nw/1 |
Digital Integration | The Rijksmuseum published a digital publication on the web about their conservation efforts for The Night Watch. |
event/stowe/1 |
Basic Patterns | The Christie's auction of the Stowe House took place over 40 days in August and September, 1848 (Source). |
object/chess/1 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | "Vessel with miniature chess set" by Michael Mode consists of 36 parts (the 32 pieces, the board, a lid, and two other parts) |
object/nightwatch/10 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The Night Watch is primarily a brown color (B35A1F), which is categorized as being brown (aat:300127490) |
object/nightwatch/11 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The Night Watch is a landscape format painting, as it is wider than it is high. |
object/nightwatch/6 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The Night Watch is 379.5 cm high, by 453.5 cm wide. |
object/nightwatch/8 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The Night Watch once more, described with human readable labels on each dimension. |
object/nightwatch/9 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The measurement of the Night Watch was carried out by the "Operation Night Watch" team, during "Operation Night Watch" |
object/spring/29 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | Spring has "Framed [Outer Dim]" and "Unframed" dimensions. The "Unframed" height and width are 74 and 51.5cm. |
text/koot_nightwatch_ch1/2 |
Texts and Documents | The introduction chapter to Koot's book is 10 pages long. |
Terms outside the registry
The vocabulary registry holds only the terms linked.art itself publishes, so a dataset's own concepts, places and people are written with Aat.Term, Tgn.Place and Ulan.Person, giving the id and the label.
| Example | Section | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
activity/exha/1 |
Exhibitions | Manet and Modern Beauty at the Getty, October 2019 to January 2020, was carried out by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and influenced by the idea behind the exhibition. |
activity/exha/40 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
activity/exhb/1 |
Exhibitions | The Art Institute of Chicago exhibited Manet and Modern Beauty in Chicago with a specific set of objects, and is part of the larger multi-venue exhibition. |
concept/exhidea/1 |
Exhibitions | The idea (or abstract work) for the Manet and Modern Beauty exhibition is about Manet and Beauty. |
concept/exhidea/2 |
Exhibitions | The conceptualization of the "Manet and Modern Beauty" exhibition was influenced by the Manet and his work. |
concept/painting/2 |
Concepts | |
concept/painting/3 |
Concepts | The concept of painting is a type of work, and has a broader concept of visual artworks. |
event/christies_24477/1 |
Auctions | An auction event takes place on November 5th, 2014 at the New York premises of Christie's. |
event/christies_24477_16/1 |
Auctions | Lot 16 was auctioned as part of the auction above. |
group/harwoodstudio/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | The "Bust of a Man" object described above was previously thought to have been created by the Studio of Francis Harwood, a Group. The example below is the record for the Group. |
object/bust/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | The sculpture "Bust of a Man" was created by Francis Hardwood using the sculpting technique. |
object/letter/1 |
Archives | A letter between Alfred Stieglitz and Bertha Obermeyer, dated 1920 is part of the "Stieglitz Family Letters" sub-series, which is part of "Series I: Alfred Stieglitz Correspondence" (which is part of the "Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O'Keeffe Archive" at Yale University) |
object/nightwatch/10 |
Objects: Physical Characteristics | The Night Watch is primarily a brown color (B35A1F), which is categorized as being brown (aat:300127490) |
object/nightwatch/14 |
Objects: Provenance | The Night Watch is owned by the City of Amsterdam, and on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum. |
object/nightwatch/17 |
Objects: Provenance | The Night Watch is also (entirely hypothetically) loaned to the Getty Museum. |
object/nightwatch/25 |
Conservation Activity | The Rijksmuseum checked the condition of The Night Watch, at the beginning of the project "Operation Night Watch" |
object/nightwatch/26 |
Conservation Activity | Minor conservation improvements were made to The Night Watch. |
object/nightwatch/52 |
Concepts | |
object/nightwatch/70 |
Relationships and Context for Assignment of Attributes | The description of The Night Watch was generated by an AI at a particular point in time, and is licensed as CC-BY. |
object/run/1 |
Object Production and Destruction | A painted textile called "RÜN", where the linen was hand-woven by Sarah Parke and then painted by Mark Barrow. |
object/spring/6 |
Objects: Provenance | The current owner of Spring is the Getty. |
person/rembrandt/1 |
Basic Patterns | |
person/rembrandt/13 |
Actors: People and Organizations | Rembrandt was born on 1606-07-15 and died on 1669-10-04 in Amsterdam. |
person/rembrandt/14 |
Actors: People and Organizations | Rembrandt was buried some time after he died in 1669 at the location of Westerkerk. |
person/rembrandt/32 |
Actors: People and Organizations | Rembrandt was male. |
person/rembrandt/6 |
Actors: People and Organizations | The equivalent entity in ULAN for Rembrandt is http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500011051 |
person/rembrandt/7 |
Actors: People and Organizations | Rembrandt was professionally active as a painter between 1631 and his death in 1669. |
person/rembrandt/9 |
Actors: People and Organizations | Rembrandt was Dutch. |
provenance/5 |
Transfer of Rights | A copyright management organization, the Paintings Copyright Association, acquired the copyright for a particular painting in 2014. |
provenance/fixme/1 |
Object Acquisition and Loan | A sculpture is purchased with $900 going to the seller, and $100 going to the auction house. |
provenance/manet_proust/1 |
Object Provenance | Édouard Manet sold his painting, Jeanne, to Antonin Proust in 1883 for 3,000 francs. |
provenance/mona_lisa_theft/1 |
Loans, Thefts, Losses and other Changes of Custody | The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 by Vincenzo Peruggia. |
provenance/nuveen_commission/1 |
Promised Activities | The "Nuveen Painting" by Jim Dine was commissioned by Richard Franke in 1985. |
provenance/sharp_sale/1 |
Loans, Thefts, Losses and other Changes of Custody | A painting by Joseph Henry Sharp, "Cheyenne Oklahoma", was stolen from the Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico and then sold (at auction) for $52,650 to an undisclosed buyer. |
provenance/spring_aic/1 |
Loans, Thefts, Losses and other Changes of Custody | Spring is lent by the Getty to the Art Institute of Chicago. |
provenance/spring_getty/1 |
Loans, Thefts, Losses and other Changes of Custody | |
set/24477_16_objects/1 |
Auctions | Lot 16 consists of a single painting, Spring. |
set/24477_16_objects/2 |
Auctions | Lot 16 had an estimated price of $25,000,000: |
set/exhset/1 |
Collections and Sets | The set of objects in an exhibition. |
set/exhset/2 |
Collections and Sets | The objects exhibited were typically (but not exclusively) paintings by Manet. |
text/rembrandtjaccuse/1 |
Basic Patterns | A video (currently modeled as a Work that contains language, or a LinguisticObject) about Rembrandt's Night Watch was directed by Peter Greenaway and Produced by Femke Wolting. |
visual/harpers/1 |
Objects: Aboutness | |
visual/nightwatch/40 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
visual/spring/2 |
Objects: Aboutness | Manet's Spring is about the season spring. |
visual/spring/3 |
Objects: Aboutness | Manet's Spring is in an impressionist style. |
visual/spring/4 |
Objects: Aboutness | Spring's visual appearance is classified as a Portrait. |
visual/spring/5 |
Objects: Aboutness | The painting Spring also depicts a parasol which, of course, does not have its own identity. |