I'm not quite sure what the focus of this template is (as opposed to just using an image box), but I guess it is intended to be similar to some of the other taxoboxes.

However, in this case, I'm not sure that it is a good idea to put the title of the painting above the image. It is much more usual to put a painting's title in italics below the image - after the artist's name and then followed by the (year), size and medium. -- Solipsist 12:56, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

When should one include the name of the city after the museum? It seems only fair that the reader is told that an obscure museum like the Czartoryski Museum is in Kraków (as in the case of the Lady with an Ermine article), but what about world-famous ones such as Museo del Prado and Musée du Louvre? Is it parochial to write Museum of Modern Art instead of Museum of Modern Art, New York City (particularly as 'The National Gallery, London' is preferred to 'The National Gallery')? Some guidelines on this would be helpful. – Ham 10:53, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My view would almost always: there has to be a time when you learn where the Louvre is and, as for the Prado—isn’t that a rag-trade thing? After all we only read encyclopedias because we are ignorant, and the only things that can be assumed about us are that we can read and that we want to learn. Well, that’s my rant of the day. —Ian Spackman 21:33, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now that I look more closely, this conversation seems moot. The template will automatically treat as a link what you put as the museum parameter. I’m not sure that that is a good idea. (I am sure, however, that a template which encourages editors to treat works of art as physical objects whose dimensions, physical characteristics and location are significant is a good thing.) —Ian Spackman 22:35, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I created an alternative to this template, Template:Painting2, which may be useful in special cases: "This template is identical to Template:Painting, with one difference: it does not automatically treat the name of the artist as a link. It can therefore be used if the artist is unknown, if there are several artists, or if something should be added to the name of the artist (e.g.: "Attributed to Raphael")." Skarioffszky 17:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]