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Arts (649 articles)

1. Art
2. The arts (Level 1)

Architecture (56 articles)

See also Technology > Construction section

1. Architecture (Level 2)
2. Sacred architecture
3. Architectural drawing
4. Architectural theory
5. Proportion
6. Landscape architecture

Styles (14 articles)

1. Ancient Egyptian architecture
2. Ancient Greek architecture
3. Ancient Roman architecture
4. Baroque architecture
5. Byzantine architecture
6. Chinese architecture
7. Gothic architecture
8. Architecture of India
9. Islamic architecture
10. Megalith
11. Mesoamerican architecture
12. Modern architecture
13. Renaissance architecture
14. Romanesque architecture

Specific structures (36 articles)

1. Acropolis of Athens
2. Alhambra
3. Angkor Wat (Level 3)
4. Burj Khalifa
5. Chartres Cathedral
6. Colosseum (Level 3)
7. Eiffel Tower
8. Empire State Building
9. Fallingwater
10. Florence Cathedral
11. Forbidden City
12. Great Wall of China (Level 3)
13. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
14. Hagia Sophia
15. Kaaba
16. Kinkaku-ji
17. Leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Machu Picchu (Level 3)
19. Moscow Kremlin
20. Notre Dame de Paris
21. Palace of Versailles
22. Palace of Westminster
23. Pantheon, Rome
24. Parthenon (Level 3)
25. Sagrada Família
26. Sistine Chapel
27. St. Peter's Basilica
28. Statue of Liberty
29. Stonehenge (Level 3)
30. Sydney Opera House
31. Taj Mahal (Level 3)
32. Temple Mount
33. Villa Capra "La Rotonda"
34. Ziggurat of Ur
35. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
    1. Great Pyramid of Giza (Level 3)

Literature (201 articles)

Basic concepts in literature (29 articles)

1. Literature (Level 2)
2. Book (Level 2)
3. Character
4. Fiction (Level 3)
   1. Children's literature
   2. Fable
   3. Fairy tale
   4. Fantasy
   5. Horror fiction
   6. Legend
   7. Romance novel
   8. Satire
   9. Science fiction
      1. Time travel
5. Literary criticism
6. Narrative
7. Non-fiction
   1. Biography
   2. Dictionary
   3. Encyclopedia
   4. Thesaurus
8. Novel (Level 3)
9. Poetry (Level 3)
   1. Epic poetry
   2. Ghazal
   3. Haiku
   4. Ode
   5. Sonnet
10. Prose (Level 3)
11. Short story (Level 3)

Specific works of literature (171 articles)

Nonfiction (55 articles)

Nonfiction of antiquity (27 articles)

1. Anabasis (Xenophon)
2. Analects
3. Apology (Plato)
4. The Art of War
5. The Book of Healing
6. The Consolation of Philosophy
7. Dead Sea Scrolls
8. Euclid's Elements
9. Hippocratic Corpus
10. Histories (Herodotus)
11. History of the Peloponnesian War
12. I Ching
13. The Incoherence of the Incoherence
14. The Incoherence of the Philosophers
15. The Maxims of Ptahhotep
16. Metaphysics (Aristotle)
17. Muqaddimah
18. Nicomachean Ethics
19. Organon
20. Physics (Aristotle)
21. Poetic Edda
22. Popol Vuh
23. The Republic (Plato)
24. Septuagint
25. Summa Theologica
26. Targum
27. Vulgate

Nonfiction of early printed book era (12 articles)

1. The Birds of America
2. Critique of Pure Reason
3. A Dictionary of the English Language
4. Discourse on the Method
5. Encyclopædia Britannica
6. Gutenberg Bible
7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
8. King James Version
9. Leviathan
10. Opticks
11. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
12. The Prince

Nonfiction of modern era (16 articles)

1. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
2. The Communist Manifesto
3. Das Kapital
4. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
5. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
6. The Golden Bough
7. Night
8. On the Origin of Species
9. Oxford English Dictionary
10. Principia Mathematica
11. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
12. Silent Spring
13. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
14. The Souls of Black Folk
15. The Varieties of Religious Experience
16. The Wealth of Nations

Fiction (89 articles)

Fiction of antiquity (17 articles)

1. The Bacchae
2. The Birds
3. The Clouds
4. Dashakumaracharita
5. Fengshen Yanyi
6. The Golden Ass
7. Journey to the West
8. Kadambari
9. La Princesse de Clèves
10. Medea
11. Oresteia
12. Oedipus the King
13. One Thousand and One Nights
14. Panchatantra
15. Romance of the Three Kingdoms
16. The Tale of Genji
17. Water Margin

Fiction of early printed book era (17 articles)

1. Candide
2. Doctor Faustus
3. Don Quixote (Level 3)
4. Dream of the Red Chamber
5. Goethe's Faust
6. Gulliver's Travels
7. Hamlet
8. King Lear
9. Macbeth
10. The Merchant of Venice
11. A Midsummer Night's Dream
12. Othello
13. Robinson Crusoe
14. Romeo and Juliet
15. Tartuffe
16. The Tempest
17. Utopia

Fiction of modern era (52 articles)

1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
3. Anna Karenina
4. Brave New World
5. The Brothers Karamazov
6. Buddenbrooks
7. The Call of the Wild
8. The Catcher in the Rye
9. A Christmas Carol
10. The Chronicles of Narnia
11. Crime and Punishment
12. The Crucible
13. A Doll's House
14. Eugene Onegin
15. Frankenstein
16. The Grapes of Wrath
17. Gravity's Rainbow
18. Great Expectations
19. The Great Gatsby
20. Heart of Darkness
21. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
22. The Importance of Being Earnest
23. In Search of Lost Time
24. Jane Eyre
25. Les Misérables
26. The Little Prince
27. Lolita
28. The Lord of the Rings
29. Madame Bovary
30. The Metamorphosis
31. Middlemarch
32. Midnight's Children
33. Moby-Dick
34. Nineteen Eighty-Four
35. On the Road
36. One Hundred Years of Solitude
37. Pride and Prejudice
38. The Scarlet Letter
39. Snow Country
40. Sons and Lovers
41. The Sound and the Fury
42. Stranger in a Strange Land
43. The Sun Also Rises
44. Things Fall Apart
45. The Three Musketeers
46. To the Lighthouse
47. Ulysses
48. Uncle Tom's Cabin
49. Waiting for Godot
50. War and Peace
51. The War of the Worlds
52. Wuthering Heights

Comics (3 articles)

1. The Adventures of Tintin
2. Asterix
3. Peanuts

Poetic works (27 articles)

Poetic works of antiquity (14 articles)

1. Aeneid
2. Beowulf
3. The Canterbury Tales
4. Divine Comedy
5. Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
6. Epic of Gilgamesh (Level 3)
7. Iliad
8. Mahabharata (Level 3)
9. Masnavi
10. Metamorphoses
11. Nibelungenlied
12. Odyssey
13. Shahnameh (Level 3)
14. The Song of Roland

Poetic works of early printed book era (5 articles)

1. Shakespeare's sonnets
2. Paradise Lost
3. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
4. Oku no Hosomichi
5. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Poetic works of modern era (8 articles)

1. The Cantos
2. Duino Elegies
3. L'après-midi d'un faune
4. Leaves of Grass
5. The Raven
6. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
7. A Season in Hell
8. The Waste Land

Music (144 articles)

Basics (14 articles)

1. Music (Level 2)
2. Choir
3. Counterpoint
4. Harmony
   1. Chord
5. Melody
6. Music theory
7. Music video
8. Musical notation
9. Orchestra (Level 3)
10. Rapping
11. Rhythm
12. Scale (music)
13. Singing (Level 3)

Music genres and forms (34 articles)

1. Baroque music
   1. Fugue
2. Blues
3. Classical music (Level 3)
   1. Aria
   2. Concerto
   3. Opera (Level 3)
   4. Sonata
   5. Symphony
4. Country music
5. Disco
6. Electronic music
7. Folk music (Level 3)
8. Funk
9. Gamelan
10. Gregorian chant
11. Hip hop music (Level 3)
12. Hymn
13. Indian classical music
14. Jazz (Level 3)
    1. Bossa nova
    2. Ragtime
15. National anthem
16. Pop music (Level 3)
17. Reggae
18. Rhythm and blues
    1. Soul music
19. Rock music (Level 3)
    1. Heavy metal music
    2. Punk rock
    3. Rock and roll
20. Salsa music
21. Samba
22. Singer-songwriter

Musical instruments (42 articles)

1. Musical instrument (Level 3)
2. Electronic musical instrument
   1. Bass guitar
   2. Electric guitar
   3. Synthesizer
3. Percussion instrument
   1. Bell
   2. Conga
   3. Cymbal
   4. Djembe
   5. Drum
   6. Piano
   7. Xylophone
4. String instrument
   1. Cello
   2. Double bass
   3. Guitar
   4. Harp
   5. Harpsichord
   6. Lute
   7. Lyre
   8. Mandolin
   9. Viola
   10. Violin
5. Wind instrument
   1. Accordion
   2. Bagpipes
   3. Brass instrument
      1. Horn
      2. Trombone
      3. Trumpet
      4. Tuba
   4. Harmonica
   5. Pipe organ
   6. Woodwind instrument
      1. Bassoon
      2. Clarinet
      3. Flute
         1. Pan flute
      4. Oboe
      5. Recorder
      6. Saxophone

Specific musical works (52 articles)

Traditional (1 article)

1. Auld Lang Syne

Baroque (5 articles)

1. Brandenburg Concertos
2. The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
3. Mass in B minor
4. Messiah (Handel)
5. The Well-Tempered Clavier

Classical (10 articles)

1. Carmina Burana (Orff)
2. The Creation (Haydn)
3. La mer (Debussy)
4. Nocturnes (Chopin)
5. Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)
6. Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
7. Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
8. Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)
9. Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
10. Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)

Opera (8 articles)

1. Carmen
2. Don Giovanni
3. Madama Butterfly
4. The Magic Flute
5. Pelléas et Mélisande
6. Der Ring des Nibelungen
7. La traviata
8. Tristan und Isolde

Ballet (3 articles)

1. The Nutcracker
2. The Rite of Spring
3. Swan Lake

Musicals (4 articles)

1. Hair
2. Oklahoma!
3. The Phantom of the Opera
4. West Side Story

Modern (21 articles)

1. The Dark Side of the Moon
2. Guantanamera
3. Happy Birthday to You
4. Heartbreak Hotel
5. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
6. Imagine (John Lennon song)
7. The Internationale
8. Johnny B. Goode
9. Kind of Blue
10. Like a Rolling Stone
11. Pet Sounds
12. Respect (song)
13. Rhapsody in Blue
14. Rock Around the Clock
15. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
16. Stairway to Heaven
17. This Land Is Your Land
18. Thriller (Michael Jackson album)
19. We Shall Overcome
20. What's Going On
21. White Christmas

Venues (2 articles)

1. Music venue
2. Opera house

Performing arts (45 articles)

Concepts (6 articles)

1. Performing arts (Level 2)
2. Acting
3. Audience
4. Costume
5. Joke
6. Parody

Forms (38 articles)

1. Acrobatics
2. Circus
3. Clown
4. Magic (illusion)
   1. Sleight of hand
   2. Escapology
5. Mime artist
6. Performance art
7. Performance poetry
8. Puppetry
9. Stand-up comedy

Dance (13 articles)

1. Dance (Level 3)
2. Ballet
3. Ballroom dance
4. Belly dance
5. Bharata Natyam
6. Bolero
7. Choreography
8. Flamenco
9. Hip-hop dance
10. Folk dance
11. Jazz dance
12. Modern dance
13. Tango
14. Waltz

Theatre (14 articles)

1. Theatre (Level 3)
2. Broadway theatre
3. Comedy (Level 3)
4. Drama
5. Improvisational theatre
6. Kabuki
7. Musical theatre (Level 3)
8. Noh
9. Peking opera
10. Stage
11. Stagecraft
12. Theatre of ancient Greece
13. Tragedy (Level 3)
14. West End theatre

Visual arts (107 articles)

History of art (39 articles)

Pre-modern art (12 articles)

1. Academic art
2. Baroque (Level 3)
3. Classicism
4. Dutch Golden Age painting
5. Empire style
6. Gothic art (Level 3)
7. Mannerism
8. Prehistoric art
9. Realism
10. Rock art
11. Rococo
12. Romanesque art

Modern art (15 articles)

1. Modern art
2. Abstract art
3. Abstract expressionism
4. Art Deco
5. Art Nouveau
6. Cubism
7. Dada
8. Expressionism
9. Futurism
10. Impressionism
11. Neoclassicism
12. Post-Impressionism
13. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
14. Surrealism
15. Symbolism

Contemporary art (6 articles)

1. Contemporary art
2. Land art
3. Minimalism
4. Conceptual art
5. Outsider art
6. Pop art

Non-Western art traditions (6 articles)

1. African art
2. Chinese art
3. Indian art
4. Islamic art
5. Ukiyo-e
6. Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas

Artist's tools (9 articles)

1. Ink
2. Modelling clay
3. Paint
4. Brush
5. Pastel
6. Pencil
7. Pigment
8. Pen
9. Potter's wheel

Concepts and forms (27 articles)

1. Visual arts (Level 2)
2. Calligraphy
3. Ceramic art
   1. Pottery (Level 3)
      1. Porcelain
4. Collage
5. Comics
   1. Manga
6. Drawing (Level 3)
7. Engraving
8. Fashion
9. Folk art
10. Graffiti
11. Handicraft
12. Illustration
13. Mosaic
14. Mural
15. Optical illusion
16. Origami
17. Painting (Level 3)
    1. Oil painting
    2. Watercolor painting
18. Perspective (graphical)
19. Religious art
20. Sculpture (Level 3)
21. Textile arts
22. Wood carving

Specific works (32 articles)

Painting (20 articles)

1. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
2. Along the River During the Qingming Festival
3. Arnolfini Portrait
4. The Art of Painting
5. The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)
6. Campbell's Soup Cans
7. The Death of Socrates
8. The Garden of Earthly Delights
9. Guernica
10. The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)
11. Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe
12. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
13. Mona Lisa (Level 3)
14. The Night Watch
15. Nighthawks
16. The Persistence of Memory
17. The Scream
18. The Starry Night
19. The Treachery of Images
20. Water Lilies

Sculpture (9 articles)

1. David (Michelangelo)
2. Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
3. Fountain
4. Olmec colossal heads
5. Pietà (Michelangelo)
6. Terracotta Army
7. The Thinker
8. Venus de Milo
9. Venus of Willendorf

Other media (3 articles)

1. Bayeux Tapestry
2. Book of Kells
3. The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Modern visual arts (64 articles)

Design (5 articles)

1. Design
2. Graphic design
3. Interior design
4. Industrial design
5. Web design

Digital art (2 articles)

1. Digital art
2. Computer graphics

Filmmaking (57 articles)

1. Film (Level 2)
   1. Animation (Level 3)
      1. Anime
   2. Silent film
2. Filmmaking
   1. Cinematography
   2. Special effect
   3. Studio system
3. Movie theater

Cinema by country (8 articles)

1. Cinema of the United States
2. Cinema of France
3. Cinema of India
   1. Bollywood
4. Cinema of Japan
5. Cinema of China
6. Cinema of the Soviet Union
7. Cinema of Nigeria

Film festival and awards (3 articles)

1. Film festival
   1. Cannes Film Festival
2. Academy Awards

Films (37 articles)

Animation (1 article)

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Art film (2 articles)

1. The Mirror
2. Un Chien Andalou

Comedy (2 articles)

1. The Gold Rush
2. Dr. Strangelove

Drama film (11 articles)

1. 8½
2. Bicycle Thieves
3. Breathless
4. Children of Paradise
5. Citizen Kane
6. The Godfather
7. L'Atalante
8. La Dolce Vita
9. La Grande Illusion
10. The Rules of the Game
11. Tokyo Story

Epic/Historical (9 articles)

1. The Apu Trilogy
2. Battleship Potemkin
3. The Birth of a Nation
4. Intolerance
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc
7. Rashomon
8. Seven Samurai
9. The Seventh Seal

Horror/Thriller (3 articles)

1. Psycho
2. The Third Man
3. Vertigo

Musical (2 articles)

1. Singin' in the Rain
2. The Sound of Music

Romance film (2 articles)

1. Casablanca
2. Gone With the Wind

Science fiction/Fantasy (5 articles)

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. King Kong
3. Metropolis
4. Star Wars
5. The Wizard of Oz

Fictional characters (30 articles)

Mythological and Biblical characters are listed under Philosophy and religion

Characters from Western folklore (9 articles)

1. Baba Yaga
2. Cinderella
3. Don Juan
4. Faust
5. Hansel and Gretel
6. Robin Hood
7. Santa Claus

Characters from Arthurian legend (2 articles)

1. King Arthur
2. Merlin

Characters from literature and drama (8 articles)

1. Aladdin
2. James Bond (literary character)
3. Count Dracula
4. Sherlock Holmes
5. Hua Mulan
6. Peter Pan
7. Tarzan
8. Winnie-the-Pooh

Characters from film, television and games (6 articles)

1. Astro Boy
2. Bugs Bunny
3. Donald Duck
4. Godzilla
5. Mario
6. Mickey Mouse

Characters from comics and modern folklore (7 articles)

1. Buck Rogers
2. Conan the Barbarian
3. Superhero
   1. Batman
   2. Spider-Man
   3. Superman
   4. Wonder Woman