Home › Entities › general › altarpiece

altarpiece

artwork (painting, sculpture or relief) behind the altar
Thing general Q15711026
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

altarpiece

Summary

altarpiece ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (400 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • altarpiece is a type of visual artwork[2].
  • altarpiece is a type of artificial physical object[3].
  • altarpiece is a type of screen[4].
  • altarpiece is part of altar[5].
  • altarpiece's Commons category is recorded as Altarpieces[6].
  • altarpiece's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Altarpieces[7].
  • altarpiece's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • altarpiece's different from is recorded as reredos[9].
  • altarpiece's different from is recorded as retable[10].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include visual artwork[2], artificial physical object[3], and screen[4].

Use and Application

altarpiece is part of altar[5].

Why It Matters

altarpiece ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (400 views/month).[1] altarpiece has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] altarpiece is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). altarpiece. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/altarpiece
MLA “altarpiece.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/altarpiece.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_altarpiece_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{altarpiece}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/altarpiece}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): altarpiece — https://4ort.xyz/entity/altarpiece (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/altarpiece · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → altar
    Different from → reredos, retable
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 1814643
    Wellcome collection concept id → w679ncsj
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 14455, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.