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art history

academic study of objects of art in their historical development
Intangible academic_discipline Q50637
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Summary

art history is an academic discipline[1]. It draws 3,083 Wikipedia views per month (academic discipline category, ranking #188 of 1,010).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: Geisteswissenschaften[3], humanities[4], visual art education[5]
  • Part of: Art, Music, Theatre and Media Studies[6]
  • Commons category: Art history[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Art studies[8]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Art Studies and History[9]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 2[10]
  • Different from: history of art[11], art practice[12], curatorial studies[13]
  • Is the study of: work of art[14], history of art[15]
  • Practiced by: art historian[16], art history teacher[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

Why It Matters

art history has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Aby Warburg Alexandre Benois Anita Brookner art Bernard Berenson Bialik Institute Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies Centre for Textile Conservation, Textile History and Technical Art History Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Painting in Germany CVMA Potsdam Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte digital art history Dmitry Likhachov Erwin Panofsky European Romanesque Centre Evgeni Kirilov Velev Federico Zeri Foundation Georges Bataille Heinrich Wölfflin humanities hyperimage iconology Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Institute of Art History, Philipps-Universität Marburg Institut für Kunstgeschichte – LMU München James Hutson Johan Huizinga Johann Joachim Winckelmann John Berger

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['h0001370-dejiny-umeni', 'h0001501-historiografie-umeni']
    P14541 → 4UXaZ6
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  2. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['h0001370-dejiny-umeni', 'h0001501-historiografie-umeni']
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  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image purged at → —
    Different from → history of art, art practice, curatorial studies
    Part of → —
    Subclass of → —
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 19845, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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