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mural

piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a large permanent surface
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Summary

mural is a form of art[1]. mural draws 3,670 Wikipedia views per month (form of art category, ranking #3 of 20).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: art genre[3], type of work of art[4], genre[5]
  • Subclass of: wall art[6], painting[7]
  • Commons category: Murals[8]
  • Has part(s): mural painting[9], ceramic mural[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Murals[11]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: artwork_type=mural[12]
  • Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[15]
  • Native label: peinture murale[16]
  • Different from: wall painting[17]
  • Fabrication method: painting[18]
  • Hashtag: murals[19]

Why It Matters

mural has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] mural is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Beginning of Time José Clemente Orozco Survey of Wall Art in Israel

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Grand dictionnaire terminologique. Retrieved . vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . tiktok.com. Retrieved . tiktok.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . 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. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q19850
    Basisklassifikation → 21.11
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  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 20lEhD
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  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001451-nastenna-malba
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  4. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → form of art, art genre, type of work of art +1
    Has part(s) → mural painting, ceramic mural
    Has parts → —
    Different from → wall painting
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 9903, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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