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art theft

act of stealing pieces of art
Class type of: theft Q1756454

Facts

4 properties
Instance of
field of work
Subclass of
theft[2]
Described by source
Wikidata item[3]
Practiced by
art thief[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en art crime en art theft en art heist ar سرقة الفن cs krádež uměleckého díla da kunsttyveri de Kunstraub de Kunstdiebstahl el κλοπή έργου τέχνης es robo de arte es robo de obras de arte fa سرقت آثار هنری fi taidevarkaus fr vol d'œuvre d'art he גניבת אמנות hu műkincslopás hu műkincsrablás id Pencurian karya seni it furto d'arte ja 美術窃盗
🔖 Identifiers · 19
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85008086
GND ID
4134168-5
BBC Things ID
1e81382a-f6e9-4e5b-989b-f0254e198f66
BabelNet ID
03168455n
Described at URL
www.nytimes.com
Freebase ID
/m/026_4b
Harper's tag
art-thefts
J9U entity ID
987007294792105171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
art-theft
Museum-digital tag ID
69024
NL CR AUT ID
ph521479, ph216788
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
XX544666
Show all 19 identifiers +7
Quora topic ID
Art-Theft
SVKKL authority ID
0210727-kradeze-umeleckych-predmetu, 0358785-kradeze-umeleckych-del
The Guardian topic ID
artanddesign/art-theft
Topic's main category
Category:Stolen works of art
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10638546
Wellcome Collection concept ID
z2bb5r5k
Yale LUX ID
activity/10b38841-fd30-455f-b8d4-ead49fe16f19

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🔗 Connections
← Significant event 39
São Paulo Museum of Art, Impression, Sunrise, Ghent Altarpiece, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Last Judgment, The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen, The Madonna in the Church, Warka Vase +31 more
Examples 3
2025 Louvre robbery, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, Operation Budapest
Subtypes 3
Nazi plunder, looted art, World War II looting of Poland
Subclass of 1
theft
Topic's main category 1
Category:Stolen works of art
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Stolen works of art
← Field of work 1
Stéphane Breitwieser
← Main subject 1
lootedart.com
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Summary

art theft is a field of work[1].

Related Entities

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum São Paulo Museum of Art

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. 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. 22d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID → XX544666
    "Created claim: National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID: XX544666"
  2. 4w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0210727-kradeze-umeleckych-predmetu, 0358785-kradeze-umeleckych-del
    Harper's tag → art-thefts
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: art-thefts, Matched to art thefts (#289909874) in Harper's tag #m"
  3. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0210727-kradeze-umeleckych-predmetu, 0358785-kradeze-umeleckych-del
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0210727-kradeze-umeleckych-predmetu, batch #259662"
  4. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Wikidata item
    Practiced by → art thief
    Subclass of → theft
    Instance of → field of work
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007294792105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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