VisualArtwork

The VisualArtwork type marks up visual art: paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, installations, and other art objects. It provides structured data about the artist, medium, art form, and surface of a work.

Google does not have a dedicated structured data page for VisualArtwork, but the markup is consumed by AI answer engines and knowledge graph systems for art-related queries.

Fields

No Google docs page

• artist — Primary creator of the artwork, as Person.
• artform — Art discipline: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Print, Photograph, etc.
• artMedium — Physical material used: oil, watercolour, marble, linoprint, etc.

JSON-LD example

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "VisualArtwork",
  "name": "La trahison des images",
  "artist": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "René Magritte",
    "sameAs": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7836"
  },
  "artform": "Painting",
  "artMedium": "oil",
  "artworkSurface": "canvas",
  "dateCreated": "1929",
  "width": {"@type": "Distance", "name": "100 cm"},
  "height": {"@type": "Distance", "name": "81 cm"}
}

Notes

VisualArtwork distinguishes between artist (the primary artwork creator), artform (the discipline), and artMedium (the material). For museum collections, Getty AAT vocabulary URIs can be used as artform and artMedium values for machine-readable precision. artworkSurface (canvas, paper, wood) is another useful property not covered in this glossary batch but often paired with artMedium.