Overview

In Overview you will find an overview of the most important metadata of the selected Postclassical Work. All data fields in this section are explained in detail below.

Contributing Project: If the dataset was contributed by a collaborating project, the project is indicated under Contributing Project. You can read more about collaborating projects here.

In the Creation field, various information about the creation of the Postclassical Work is listed.

Under Creation Date, you will find information about the date of the creation of the work. The Date field shows the date. The Earliest Date and Latest Date fields show the earliest and latest dates of the period in which the Postclassical Work was created. The Falls within Period field indicates the time period in which the Postclassical Work was created.

In the Sources or References field below, you will find sources relevant to the dating, if applicable. These can be bibliographic references (listed in the field Bibliographic Reference), but also Postclassical Works and Antique Monuments (in the fields Postclassical Work and Antique Monument).

Under Location, you will find information about the place of the creation of the Postclassical Work. The Location field indicates the place of origin.

Under Actors Involved in Creation, you will find information about the persons who were involved in the creation of the Postclassical Work. The Actor field gives the name of the person involved. The Actor Role field indicates the role of this person in the creation of the work (e.g., artist/author).

Sources or References lists sources for determining the place of creation.

Location: The Location field indicates the current location of the Postclassical Work, such as a museum or private collection. The Location field links to records of the object type Location, which are structured hierarchically (other parts of the user manual describe the hierarchical structure of the Census data and Location records in further detail). Above the current location, which is displayed in black, locations above it shown with a grey background (see image) indicate the superordinate location records. In this example, the Albertina Museum is identified as a location called 'Wien, Albertina.' This location is subordinate in the hierarchical structure of the Census data to the city of Wien, which is subordinate to the Federal State of Wien, which is subordinate to the country Austria.

Publication: If the Postclassical Work is also a publication, for example, in the case of a sixteenth-century engraving published in a book or a description published as part of a sixteenth-century guidebook, the publication is given here in the form of a bibliographic reference.

Aliases: Aliases are alternative names for the accessed work.